Anna
Garou
Der Wahnsinn ist nur eine schmale Br?cke
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Post by Anna on May 22, 2006 23:58:36 GMT 1
"So why hasn't anyone told me about this before?" Anna had a feeling this was one of those places only certain kinds of people could go to, like those kids that got to Narnia. She stared at her companion for a while, wondering.
"I'm sorry, but you haven't exactly told me who you are yet."
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Post by Abigail Lindermann on May 23, 2006 9:11:25 GMT 1
Abby takes another sip of her soda, before looking at the girl.
"Okay," She begins, "Y'know when you reach a certain age and you start growing hair in strange places, and all kinds of weird shit starts happening to you around about every month or so?"
She smiles.
"Well, take that, and multiply it by about a thousand," She says, "And what do you get?"
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Anna
Garou
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Post by Anna on May 23, 2006 10:12:04 GMT 1
Anna looks generally confused, failing to see the connection between puberty and other realms. In the stories it was always the other way round... maybe she was putting too much faith in the stories.
"What are you getting at?" she asked slowly, trying to make a little more sense of this before she started asking about the white metallic spiders, and why they were eager to devour human flesh.
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Post by Abigail Lindermann on May 23, 2006 10:23:52 GMT 1
"You're a werewolf," Abby says, matter-of-factually, "Or a were-something, at least."
Finishing-off the rest of her drink, she crushes the can and tosses it over her shoulder.
Gives the spiders something to clean-up... She thinks to herself.
"Which means that at least one of your parents was a were-critter, or descended from one," She continues, "And if you have a kid, there's a chance they'll become a were-thing once they hit a certain age."
She shrugs.
"At least, that's what I've been told."
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Anna
Garou
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Post by Anna on May 23, 2006 10:29:31 GMT 1
"A werewolf.... riiiight." Anna didn't quite know why she found this particular piece of information so unbelievable, with everything else that had happened today. But the spirits had always been part of her, although they had been put down to the fact that her birth mother had been a drug addict.
She listens through the whole lesson in heredity... "Are you a werewolf?" she asked. There was some measure of disbelief in her voice. But then she remembered the wings. Maybe this wasn't so far-fetched at all. "Or some kind of were-bird thing?"
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Post by Abigail Lindermann on May 23, 2006 10:41:36 GMT 1
"Yeah, I'm a werewolf," Abby says, before nodding to her wings, "These things sprout everytime I enter the Umbra... long story."
She stops walking for a moment, looking at the girl.
"If you don't believe you're a werewolf," She says, "Try shifting into a wolf. Alls ya gotta do is think like one. Hell, if you managed to get into the Umbra, shifting shouldn't be so hard."
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Anna
Garou
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Post by Anna on May 23, 2006 10:55:05 GMT 1
"I can shift whenever I want?" she asked sceptically.
Then she decides she might as well try it. She stops walking, closes her eyes, and starts to think like a wolf.
How on earth does one think like a wolf?
She supposed she'd just have to use her imagination, like when she was younger and played at pretending to be monsters or vampires or stuff.
Suddenly she realised she could hear things she couldn't hear before, like the ruslting of the spider's legs in the distance. Quickly she opened her eyes, expecting to see the spiders... but they were still far off. She looked up at Abby, and realised she was taller than she should be.
She looked down at her paws. It had worked. The strange girl with the wings and the dufflebag was actually not insane...
Anna barked, and turned around and started chasing her tail.
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Post by Abigail Lindermann on May 23, 2006 11:06:06 GMT 1
Abby smiles at the she-wolf.
"There ya go," She says, in the Garou language, "You should be able to speak like me too."
She nods her head in the direction they were walking, before continuing on her way.
"C'mon," She says, "Those spider-things might decide to come back for a feed, we'd better head-off."
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Anna
Garou
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Post by Anna on May 23, 2006 11:12:03 GMT 1
"Wow I understood wolf... I spoke wolf!" Anna barked, pausing in the tail-chasing and looking back at the spiders. "They eat people?"
Ok, think human, a wolf wearing human clothes is going to attract some attention.
Shifting back to human was easier than shifting to wolf. She adjusted her clothes a little and started walking again.
"Where are all the people then, did they get eaten by spiders?" there is a bit of humour in her voice when she says that.
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Post by Abigail Lindermann on May 23, 2006 11:24:40 GMT 1
"The kid's a natural," Abby says, to no one in particular, "As for those spider-things, they don't really eat people, well, kinda. They're all for neat and orderly, and our kind don't qualify as either."
She pauses.
"And this is the spirit-world," She says, "Ony the spiritual crap shows up 'round these parts. Most, if not all, humans aren't visible in the Umbra, and buildings and shit tend to look... or act... a little different to their real-world counterparts."
Adjusting her dufflebag, she continues.
"But that's all boring crap," She says, "You'll learn all about that yourself eventually. Hey, betcha didn't know you could shift int other forms as well. Not just human and wolf, there's a few more."
To demonstrate, Abby decides to show off her Crinos form...
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Anna
Garou
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Post by Anna on May 23, 2006 15:38:43 GMT 1
Anna swore and positively jumped at the sudden change. This was a little much to take in all at once, and that thing looked... dangerous.
"Fucking hell... I can turn into that?" she stuttered, "But... why?"
She didn't think she'd ever want to. Well, maybe if someone really pissed her off... those teeth looked nasty. She grinned.
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Post by Abigail Lindermann on May 23, 2006 16:10:39 GMT 1
Abby smiles as best she can, more showing off her teeth than anything.
"This is our Crinos form," She growls, "Our war-form. We use it to break shit, scare shit, and kill shit... Rats mostly. Fucking wererats. Never, ever trust a fucking wererat. You see one, you think your angry thoughts, shift to Crinos, and KILL the fucker."
The hatred is clear in Abby's voice.
"Same goes for any Wyrmy-types you might happen to meet," She continues, "But you'll learn about that soon enough."
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Post by Shehrazad on May 23, 2006 16:29:54 GMT 1
A howl can be heard, not too far off. In fact, it might be considered too close for comfort. To anyone who understands, it is a howl signalling a hunt.[/color]
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Post by Abigail Lindermann on May 23, 2006 16:53:55 GMT 1
"Shit," Abby mutters under her breath, "Err, y'know how I just explained to you all that stuff about our war-form?"
She slides her AK off her shoulder and cocks it.
"Well," She continues, spreading her wings as she prepares to hit the sky, "I think now'd be a good time to try it out."
With that, she flaps her wings, hovering a few feet off the ground at first, before taking to the sky completely. Once a few yards above ground, she scans the area, checking for what had caused the disturbance... pulling out another crude-looking explosive device as she does so.
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Anna
Garou
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Post by Anna on May 23, 2006 19:06:43 GMT 1
"What? Wait, where are you going?" Anna starts to panic, she really didn't want to be left alone here again. "Are the spiders coming back?"
She backed away slowly, Abby looked like she was about to fly off and leave her to be spider food.
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