Hagen Household from the other side

[Shehrazad]

The Umbral representation of Lorelei Hagen's residence.

[Lorelei Hagen]

Loreleis world moved and her eyes opened wide.She turns her head around her quickly, her hair moving oddly from side to side, until she realises she is nude and soon her haid is hanging over her. This was beyone insane...she had seen things and had dreams like this, but at the same time not like this at all. She shivered...not that she was all that cold, just beyond the grip of her own sanity and terrified of it.

[Danny]

"Damn it." Danny's voice echoes through the umbral room. "Minor details. Here, take my coat."
He takes off his long leather trenchcoat and hands it to her.
"Well, put it on. I know most homids have... issues, with being naked."

[Lorelei Hagen]

She nodded dumbly, and wraps the jacket, oddly similar to her own, only bigger, around her. She stares at him. Who wouldn't. "You...I've seen you before."
He was going to think she was nuts. Wait...he'd just spoken to her through a mirror and she was stark naked infron of him. Maybe it didn't matter it was nuts. "Were you...If you can use mirrors...were you in my dreams last night?"

[Danny]

Danny nods, as if being in somebody else's dream was as normal as drinking tea. For him it probably was.
"I was. Dreamspeaking is a gift the spirits blessed me with. I was hoping to find you before your change. It seems I was too late. They call me Danny." he says, suddenly deciding that a proper introduction was in order. "Well, some of them do."

[Kaleb]

Kaleb makes his way over to the both of them, shaking his head. Yeah, he remembered that whole nakedness thing, it wasn't much fun. He makes his way over to Danny and stands there looking about the umbra, and then returns his gaze to the girl.
"My name is Kaleb. Kinda much aint it?" He quirks his lips abit.

[Lorelei Hagen]

She reeled with shock internally...she thought seeing things was weird, this was so much weirder. He could frequent dreams. "I....change?" A brief but clear memory of the alleyway flashed into her mind "You are one of those...like the thing I turned into?" Spirits...she knew about spirits. Or thought she knew... she thought she knew a lot of things. At the introduction she barely whispers. "I'm...I'm Lorelei." She pulls the coat closer around her, as if it could afford her some comfort.
As she looks at Kaleb, something about him made her heckles rise (no pun intended) and she nods to him gently, but her eyes stay on Danny. Possibly his appearance in her dreams had helped, but she felt almost safe with him.

[Danny]

"Ah yes, this is Kaleb." he nods to him. "Nice work, Ragabash."

Then he turns back to Lorelei.
"He's a Bone Gnawer." he says, as if it explained everything. "But he's loyal, so don't worry."
He smirks at Kaleb.
"The change, you'll learn to control that soon enough. You changed last night because you raged, but it doesn't always have to be like that. Shall we go for a walk? I will try and explain as best I can."

[Lorelei Hagen]

She watches Danny compliment the guy and just nods at the explanation. Out of habit. People explain things much better if you don't insist on understanding every word they say. But...a bone gnawer? It sounded like some sort of folk tale or something...but she keeps her mouth shut, her voice would only betray how terrified she was. Rage...she could use some sort of rage now. Courage, preferably.
At Dannys offer she nods slightly and the quivering voice sneaks out, just once. "Ok-kay."

[Kaleb]

Kaleb smiles at the mention of his good work, yup he was rather quick uptop. He looks about and looks back at the cub, a walk would do them all good perhaps. Get her mind off the fact she just changed, and it mighten the load a bit.

[Danny]

Danny takes the stairs down to the living room. It was empty. There was no Mrs. Hagen in the doorway, no Mr. Hagen watching television. There wasn’t even a television at all.

“Keep an eye out for anything… unpleasant.” Danny says to Kaleb as he steps out the front door.

“You must have always known you were different.” He starts to speak to Lorelei, “We all know, somehow, that Luna calls us. The change you went through was your first change. Don’t worry, we all went through it, at least you didn’t kill anyone, not that he wouldn’t have deserved it. Again, don’t worry, control will come. But death, despair, rage and loneliness… well they have just begun. We are the Mother’s warriors after all. You’re a werewolf, you see. It comes with the job description.”

He stops briefly, letting her take this all in. Then he continues.

“I know I don’t have to tell you most of this, because somewhere inside you already know. You already cringe away from silver. You can feel something stirring when you gaze at the moon. You have seen yourself running on four legs like a wolf. You feel the Rage, rage beyond normal anger, rage that drives people to avoid you, even your own family, rage that could drive you to kill even them.”

He looks at her, reading her reaction.

“You see, the myths that evolved around us are not all based on superstition. Men still actively fear us. And they have a good reason to.” He pauses again and stares out into the Umbral night. There was a strange sense of sadness in his voice.

“Welcome to the Umbra, cub.” He says, “This is the spirit world, the other side of reality. All you see here is the spiritual representation of what fuels the world on the other side. This is Penumbra, the part closest to the real world. It looks almost like it, doesn’t it? There are other parts, deeper parts…”

He sounds oddly distant when he speaks of these places. It was quite obvious that he was drawn to this place more than most.
“Makes you want to just walk in and explore every single side of it, doesn’t it?” he says knowingly. After a few seconds silence he starts to walk again. “But this part will be do for now. Watch out for the spiders.”

[Kaleb]

kaleb nods his head and heads down the stairs and around the outside of the house. He looks to the left and to the right, watching..waiting for anything that might "pop" out. he hoped not, as well, he could take care of himself, but he wasn't too sure about Danny, and knew the cub couldn't do much against it for now...

[Lorelei Hagen]

Lorelei stares and her mouth opens slowly. She was a....like in the movies? She could....manifest into another creature, and kill hundreds of people...at the moment at any time? So many questions span therough her brain as she thought it all through and her eyes grow rather wide as she tried to think it through.
She did feel the need to see more, it was a gentle pull on a part of her she obviously didnt know yet...this...what, werewolf? She couldn't believe she was trying to accept this, but she was running out of other options to accept. All the little 'differences' that people had always picked out about her started to mesh together.
Rather than anything else in the growing myriad of questions she decided to try and adjust. It was the easiest way to let any information sink in, right? So as she follows him she asks timidly.
".....spiders?"

[Danny]

“Pattern Spiders… those spiders.”
He points to large metallic spider things, as large as overgrown dogs, spinning shiny webs all over the city.
“Their webs… they are the mark of the Weaver. The Weaver is… well, the Weaver is reason, science, order… to the extreme. You ever wondered why being in the city makes you feel uneasy? Her webs are spinning out of control.” he lowers his voice, although there was nobody except her and Kaleb for miles. “Be careful when you step sideways. Being caught in her webs is enough to drive anyone mad… After all, that is what drove the Wyrm to madness.”

[Lorelei Hagen]

She watches the spiders with a kind of fascinated horror, as they work busily around them and nods gently. "I...I always wanted to move, but I could never decide on where...I thought I got it from my mother, she hates here too.Order...." this was making more and more sense. She was studying psychology because she couldn't do the regular sciences. So many rules...
As he warned her of webs,she automatically looks to her left, as her right is occupied buy him, and nods...but that raises another question. "Wyrm?" She queries, "What wyrm?"