The Forest Clearing

[Tristain]

Tristain watches Anna walk away with a feeling somewhere between despair and sad acceptance. Danny had been right when he said that others would be less forgiving than him. Finding a home seemed like as distant a dream as it had been when he'd arrived in Berlin.

[Yvonne]

Yvonne looks around at them as Slagbröder leave, offering a comforting pat to Anna as she went, but otherwise does nothing about their departure.
Once they're gone, she looks back at Danny.
"What will happen now?"

[Danny]

Danny watched Vasara and his pack walk away with a heavy heart. But if he had expected anything else, it would have been foolish.

"Are you ok?" he asked Tristain. It would be hard to miss the fear in his eyes. He was visibly trembling too.

He turned to Yvonne, grateful that she had stayed.
"Now we do what we came here for," he said. "Will you stay and help me? I will need Micah."

[Tristain]

Tristain jumps at the attention. The concern seems... out of place somehow.

"Yeah... I'm sorry." It's quite clear to Tristain that he's just made life a lot more difficult for Danny, and the big guy's parting words... well, if he needed any more reason not to fuck up, he just got one. He wonders what he'd have to do for that guy to see him as anything other than an enemy.

[Yvonne]

Yvonne hesitates a moment at being asked to be involved, but nods eventually. Danny wouldn't of asked if there wasn't something she could do.
"I'll help how I can."
She gives Danny a nod, and Tristain a cold look, before she heads off and makes her way to the library.

[Danny]

"Thank you," he said sincerely before Yvonne ran off to the Library. It wasn't too far from here, and at the rate she could run it shouldn't be long before she returned with the Philodox. He had hoped that it would be Vasara who would do this instead, but he had been stupid to expect it.

"I wish I could tell you that is the worst you will encounter," he said to Tristain. "It will be a long time before you can convince others to accept you. It will not be easy, but doing what is right isn't always the same as doing what is easy."

He took a tentative step towards Tristain.
"If you let me, I will dedicate your clothes so they don't fall off when we step into the Umbra."

[Tristain]

Tristain doesn't respond to the first of Danny's comments, then when he talks about clothes, Tristain looks down at the ill-fitting sportswear he was wearing, and his bare feet below that. "Umm... want to wait until I get something a bit more... " complete? Fitting? Tristain settles for "permanent?"

[Danny]

(OOC: Ok going to let Slag regroup at Ragnarok and continue this thread for Tristain and Yvonne)

"We might need to step sideways," Danny said. "But it can wait."

First there was the hard part.
"When Micah gets here, I am going to ask you for what is perhaps the most difficult thing you will ever have to do," he said grimly. "With them as my witnesses, I will ask you to recount your crimes, every one. You must leave nothing out."

[Tristain]

Tristain looks up at Danny, then away. "What do you mean exactly? Just I've done some illegal shit before I'd even met the Guiding Light and I lived on theft the last year. Or do you just mean the ... more important stuff?"

[Danny]

"I mean what you have done under their guidance," Danny said. "The things you have done in the name of the Wyrm. The true source of your guilt."

[Tristain]

"Yeah, that's what I thought you meant." He takes a deep breath. "Then I get judged." It wasn't a question. The only question was what they'd do to him for it all.

[Danny]

"Then, one way or the other, Tristain will be no more," Danny said. "There is a rite that I can perform, that will let you renounce your old self, and start a new life. Some Garou perform it to renounce their auspices or their tribe, but the rite itself represents death and the birth of a new life."

[Tristain]

Tristain starts at Danny's opening, but calms a little as he continues to explain if not what he really meant, then at least the other option. "What... what does it actually involve?"

[Micah]

Micah had done a lot of running on two legs since he had suffered the loss of his right front paw, and therefore had little trouble keeping up with Yvonne as she led him through the woods towards the clearing. Once there, he stopped and sniffed suspiciously at Tristain.

Micah was not a very large man. He was wiry with tanned skin and shoulder-length brown hair. His right arm bore a number of scars, only few of them visible under his shirt, and the way he held it suggested he had lost most of its function.

"You needed me, Walks-with-Death-rhya?"
Tristain could not quite understand the language, although from tone and gestures, he felt he almost could. It reminded him a little of the language that Jess and Unyielding Might spoke to each other, and that they told him he would learn when he was ready to face the Spiral. Still, it sounded different somehow.

[Yvonne]

Yvonne stays silent as she stops beside Micah. She knows the decisions will be made by Danny and Micah, but there is whatever part Danny wants her to play, and she needs to know what will happen to Tristain.