[Mature]Werewolf: The Forsaken - Preludes

[Shalimar]

"I know a lot of people in this city, and it may sound conceited, but my looks do stand out a bit so it wouldn't take very long for people to find me if I did run away. I don't think that would work, and I really don't think that running away to another city where I not only know nothing about the city I'd still know nothing about being a Uratha would work either. I think I have to make it work here, at least for awhile, long enough tha I can be out on my own legally I think." Faith tells the two women,coming up with a semi valid excuse for staying beside simply not wanting to leave her life behind, it was a major decision and just being told she'd probably have to leave wasn't really good enough reason for a teen, teens being as contrary as they are.

"Isn't running away from your past just forsaking your human side so that you can live more like a wolf then a person? I don't think your really going to be able to convice me to leave, not before I at least try to stay. How long did it take you guys to accept what you are? For me its been less then 3 hours since everything happened, and I'm not really processing such a huge change yet."

 

[Festy_Dog]

Piotr frowned, he hadn't received anything remotely in the form of an explanation. The Pure? That was just more questions by the sound of it.

"Roman?" he asked, "What about my broken arm and Sherlock's gut wound? Looked kinda bad, really."

Taking another look he realised their respective injuries were no longer on the level of severity he had originally perceived.

"Never mind, we seem alright. I am almost naked, and cold."

 

[Shayuri]

Urathra. Hearing wolf-speech from the man made something happen inside Ariella, like a last bolt sliding into place...or maybe sliding aside to let a door open. This was real; not a dream. The Death Wolf...it might have been a dream, but she realized now that even if it HAD been a dream, it was still real in its own way. The realization was numbing...far more so than the cold.

She was an animal; a wolf. No more nice little apartment, or car, or job at the police. No more family reunions, or emails or cellphones. She would run in the forest and eat animals raw and eventually...what? Have puppies? The very thought set a dangerous growl thrumming in her chest and throat, and she held her head up higher.

What's happened to me?! she demanded in the wolfspeech, which made it clearly visible to anyone who understood, that her apparent aggressiveness was born almost entirely of fear. I was a human being! Am I trapped like this forever?!

 

[Tokiwong]

What's happened to me?! she demanded in the wolfspeech, which made it clearly visible to anyone who understood, that her apparent aggressiveness was born almost entirely of fear. I was a human being! Am I trapped like this forever?!

“You are not stuck. You can change. Remember your shape. Remember your face. Then take it, and will the body. No fear,” the man replies to Ariella removing his jacket.

“Change,” he commands.

Piotr & Drake

Moriarty shrugs, “You will be fine stop bitching. And yeah we need to get you some clothes. We got a van out back I am sure we can find you something in there. Just try not to change too much.”

Faith

Candace shrugs, “Do what you want.”

Subtle Storm smiles, “Yes you can look at it that way, and many do. But your simple wisdom has merit, you should not forsake that old life, but balance it with what you are. In the end only you can decide what you want to do, and I think you have decided so we shall leave it at that.”

 

[Shalimar]

"Thank you for that Subtle Storm." Faith says gratefully, feeling a greater kinship with her then with the blood thirsty Blood Talon Beta, she was actually starting to feel greatful that she wasn't going to be in the beta's pack, she was truly frightening.

"What you said about breeding...you said that we could do it with humans, but not Uratha or wolves, does that mean that we can change into more then just wolfmen, er wolfwomen...half wolf-hybrids? What exactly can we change into? I take it multiple things, and I did see Candace change into a really big not quite non-human, but not fully human form either. Can I change into all of that? How do we change, I don't want to change by accident, so I want to be able to control it."

 

[Tokiwong]

"What you said about breeding...you said that we could do it with humans, but not Uratha or wolves, does that mean that we can change into more then just wolfmen, er wolfwomen...half wolf-hybrids? What exactly can we change into? I take it multiple things, and I did see Candace change into a really big not quite non-human, but not fully human form either. Can I change into all of that? How do we change, I don't want to change by accident, so I want to be able to control it."

“Yes the gauru is the war form, the shape of rage… and not to be used lightly. Hishu is your current shape now, the human,” Subtle Storm replies.

“Oh yeah you are talking about the dalu, the near human shape… one of strength that still gives us some of the advantages of the man shape. Urshul is the near-wolf form, it is strong, but also gives you speed… but no one would ever mistake you for simply just a wild beast… and then we have the wolf form, the urhan. It is built for speed and to move unnoticed in the wilds,” Candace adds taking a seat and sharpening her blade.

“You will learn what form is best for what with experience, but you can change into them at will,” Subtle Storm replies, “by harnessing your internal primal will or simply expending some essence…”

“Oh god here comes the questions… a long story short princess, essence is the food of spirits. We are part spirit as well and it fuels our gifts and many of our what some people would call supernatural abilities. Essence comes from the Shadow… either spirits or into the physical world at a locus a place of power,” Candace adds.

Subtle Storm looks at Candace with surprise, “That is surprisingly accurate.”

 

[Festy_Dog]

"I liked those clothes," Piotr laments as he gets up, his arm more or less fine, "It's as though it was never broken.

"I always wondered if there was something... more to everything. Anyway, Nightshades, how far to your van? I don't want to spend to long trekking through snow in what's left of my boxers."

 

[Shayuri]

Ariella seizes on his words, and tries to see herself as she has, countless times in the mirror. The change starts slowly...a crawling sensation...but speeds up as it goes. Finally it ends with Ari, as she was, crouching down.

She quickly stands up, looking at her arms, feeling her face.

"It worked!" she gasps. "I'm...I'm..."

Cold. And, she realized...naked.

Abruptly turning bright red, she folds her arms over herself and crouches down again.

"Uh...do one of you have a coat I can borrow?" she asks. "Please?"

 

[Tokiwong]

Ariella seizes on his words, and tries to see herself as she has, countless times in the mirror. The change starts slowly...a crawling sensation...but speeds up as it goes. Finally it ends with Ari, as she was, crouching down.

She quickly stands up, looking at her arms, feeling her face.

"It worked!" she gasps. "I'm...I'm..."

Cold. And, she realized...naked.

Abruptly turning bright red, she folds her arms over herself and crouches down again.

"Uh...do one of you have a coat I can borrow?" she asks. "Please?"

Isaac puts his long heavy coat around her. He speaks normally now, “There well hello, my name is Isaac and this is my son Camera; we are like you. Looks like the spirits have brought you here to us this evening. You should come with us, I know this may all seem scary to you, but I mean you no harm.”

 

[Shalimar]

"Enough calling me princess, I do have a name." Faith growls flatly at Candace, her annoyance and anger overriding her fear of the woman. "So we have 5 forms...ok, that makes sense, well none of this makes sense, but I understand the 5 shapes, Human, close to human, hybrid, near wolf, and wolf. I have changed into the Gauru form, so I guess I have to turn into the other ones next. I don't remember turning into the...Dalu was it? On the way to going Gauru do we change through each one on our way from one to the next or is it all at once?" she asks Subtle Storm.

"Essence? Spirit food? So essence is spirit energy that we can use for our powers? What powers do we have? How would I go about learning how to use them? and whats the shadow? Is that some kind of spirit world where all the spirits hang out when they aren't picking on us cubs?"