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[Video] [Locked to New Hires only] [TW for Punishment in the linked log.]
Stacia, Armstrong, I need to see both of you in person. On the double. Five minutes ago. Anyone else with a real good sense of smell, you come see me too.
[On the camera, underneath his oak tree in the garden, Bunny has a little bit of that dead-eyed stare that comes from being reminded how thoroughly shackled they all are to the most banal form of evil. Mostly, this is just businesslike, direct. Calmly urgent, after his furious meltdown in the Executive wing got him nowhere good.]
Everyone else: Sam and Dan and I tracked what attacked Tenten and Setsuna into the Executive wing. I smelled it there recently before the suits caught us and kicked us out.
[There's no real reason to bring up their Punishment. It happened, it hurt, he hates that he dragged Dan and Sam into it, but they all knew it was likely to happen. And if anything they learned can help prevent any further damage to the kids, it'll have absolutely been worth it.]
I couldn't identify the species, but it's supernatural, and old. Older than me. Some variety of predator. Given we tracked it into areas we're not allowed to go, and it spent a lot of time wandering around there all leisurely, it either looks enough like a suit that they gave it a pass, or it can walk through walls. If I had money, I'd put it on walking through walls. I'm not ruling out both, though.
But don't worry. Jorgmund's bringing in - [he scoffs, and rolls his eyes hugely] dogs to finish tracking it.
I'm still racking my brains to see if any memory of what it could be falls out, but if any of that rings any bells for all you, I'm all ears.
[On the camera, underneath his oak tree in the garden, Bunny has a little bit of that dead-eyed stare that comes from being reminded how thoroughly shackled they all are to the most banal form of evil. Mostly, this is just businesslike, direct. Calmly urgent, after his furious meltdown in the Executive wing got him nowhere good.]
Everyone else: Sam and Dan and I tracked what attacked Tenten and Setsuna into the Executive wing. I smelled it there recently before the suits caught us and kicked us out.
[There's no real reason to bring up their Punishment. It happened, it hurt, he hates that he dragged Dan and Sam into it, but they all knew it was likely to happen. And if anything they learned can help prevent any further damage to the kids, it'll have absolutely been worth it.]
I couldn't identify the species, but it's supernatural, and old. Older than me. Some variety of predator. Given we tracked it into areas we're not allowed to go, and it spent a lot of time wandering around there all leisurely, it either looks enough like a suit that they gave it a pass, or it can walk through walls. If I had money, I'd put it on walking through walls. I'm not ruling out both, though.
But don't worry. Jorgmund's bringing in - [he scoffs, and rolls his eyes hugely] dogs to finish tracking it.
I'm still racking my brains to see if any memory of what it could be falls out, but if any of that rings any bells for all you, I'm all ears.
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[He has his boomerang holster in his paws, and he upends it, pinching the corner of a scrap of torn blanket between the tips of two claws.]
I picked up as much of the killer's scent as I could. Try not to touch it, but get a good whiff. If you smell any trace of that while you're about, you sound the alarm straight off, got it?
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[This is important though, so she only sighs a little as she backs up a step or two and crouches down.]
Keep an eye out for any full-fledged Jorg employees for me.
[Stacia shifts, but not to Crinos. This time, she goes all the way to Lupus. She's small for a wolf, just like she's small for a human, but a wolf is still a wolf, not a dog.
She sits up politely, so that Bunny can present her far more sensitive nose with the bit of blanket.]
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You smell this anywhere, however faint, you give me a call, right? And no going anywhere alone. Not even to track it, if you're by yourself.
[She might try. She's brave and strong enough that she might think it worth the risk. But he already has enough nightmares without adding more trauma to more of the children here to the bank his bad dreams have to draw from.]
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When she thinks she's managed to press it into the soft meat of her brain, she sits back and returns to the shape of a human girl to talk; crawling back into the jumpsuit she'd wiggled out of when she'd turned into a wolf. She offers Bunny a smile, trying to project her sincerity.]
I'm as much wolf as I am human, and wolves are pack animals. We can do the things we do, have done the things we've done, because we don't do them alone. I'll call if I smell it, and I'll only chase it if I think someone's being hurt. And even then, I'll call first.
[There, that's reassuring, right? Totally makes up for the fight they are almost certainly about to have.]
May I ask some questions, Bunny?
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Yeah, whatcha got?
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Even if it breaks both their hearts.]
Remember how you asked if I was Faoladh back when we first met? I said sort of, that my family wasn't Irish. The thing is, the name we're called by ourselves and by other shifters is 'Garou', and we have a purpose. We have a duty to the one who created us. We're warriors of Gaia. Her teeth and claws.
[This part isn't really her questions, just the context for the questions she'll be asking.]
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With an inkling about what this brave and smart and strong girl, who has more capacity for violence than any child should ever have been asked to wield, is about to insist to him, he takes a deep breath to prepare for an argument he's not going to like.]
The Gaia I know doesn't ask children to fight for her. But I know what kind of purpose you mean.
[And she's going to be disappointed when he still doesn't invite her to risk her life with him.]
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In her defense, she didn't really ask -- it's a role we're born to, and the world is really messed up. In an ideal one, we wouldn't have to fight until we were adults, but that's not the world I live in.
[She sighs.]
Gaia is actually a...I don't really have the vocabulary for it, but the difference between us and her is so vast that we can't really understand her. Too much meat and mortality and all that fun stuff, I guess. So we deal with various other spirits as intermediaries, and they teach us things and we pay for it in tasks or other actions. The one I deal with most frequently is Goat. [This actually gets a faint smile out of her; she's quite fond of Goat and she misses the scrubby bastard.] What my pack's Goat asks of us is mostly down to an attitude and a particular approach to life than anything task-related. But we're at risk of running up against one of the guidelines here, so I want to loop you in: if I fail, I have to try again, but I have to try again a different way.
[She raises her gaze to make eye-contact with Bunny, hoping to impart how serious she is here.]
I want to work with the group, because that's the best way to handle a situation like this. But if I'm flat out told "no, you can't, stay away", I'm going to have to find an alternative out of spiritual obligation, and I really don't want to find an alternative. [She spreads her hands before her.] I'm not asking you to invite me on hunting trips or anything like that, just don't shut me down completely.