Decker Rohl

Eliza Bahn

Wed 06:15PM EST
"There is ample blame to be passed around. Even to Noah."

Just because he was Family didn't mean that there wouldn't be a grudge of some sort held, spoken or not. Her family, at least to her, came before the petty testosterone based squabbling of male Garou.

"Decker may want to watch where he puts his hands, however, lest he wants to make a complete hypocrit out of himself in the future, however."

If a certain Garou hadn't interfered, then Imogen possibly would have just kept the incident to herself. A private matter, that at that point prior to Decker claiming the other Fianna Kin as his mate, had been between Tribe: a Garou with rage and a Kin that had been punching his buttons till he'd lost his temper. It could have been worse: Noah could have killed her in a spat of temper. Such things weren't uncommon, especially so close to the full moon. Up until that comment, the same could be said of a following incident that had been just as close and resulting in the same problem. The only difference was... Eliza wasn't about to go tattle to Noah that Decker had done exactly the same thing to one of the Fianna only two days later.

Erik

Wed 06:20PM EST
He stands, suddenly, but goes no where. Just stands there. Looks pretty much nowhere. "I'll see to yer kid's nightmares."

Stands there still, hands shoved deep into the pockets of his olive-drab army jacket.

Carmen

Wed 06:21PM EST
She skips up the steps to door that goes into the kitchen, and little fingers knock and little voice rings out sweetly (oh the cute factor is in full effect) "Mis'Liza? you homes yet?"
She could probably look through a hole in the wall somewhere but that's like looking in windows and momma always said dats rude..

James

Wed 06:25PM EST
the gift was a breath of fresh air
honestly
dampening things for a bit
but it's integrally hard for him
to hear this
he wants to get angry (angrier) but he just.... can't
so he seeths

just seeeeeeeths

the little would-be Ahroun that clung to him like an little Irish vine
the child that snuck out after her bedtime to cuddle and play
until she trusted him enough to fall asleep curled in his arms
one adorable little girl that made him smile and remember he could be genuinely. happy.
terrified into nightmares by his packmate

he doesn't hear that last part, about hypocrisy
he doesn't even hear the kid's voice

Eliza Bahn

Wed 06:25PM EST
If Decker gave her children the heebie-jeebies (even prior to the brawl), then it stood to reason that Erik would probably scare the hell out of them. He didn't seem what you would call a pretty poster pin-up of the Garou race with such ravaged features. But what was she going to say? No? Well, she could ... but it sounded like a genuine offer and if it would allow the children to be able to sleep easier at night, then it wasn't something to be tossed aside negligently.

"And Decker?"

Ra'gon

Wed 06:26PM EST
Again his eyes roll with the lack of reply from within the huvel. Another step and he was off, his first inclination was to bound to the next cabin, but the shifting forms from his right caught his attention. There away from these cabins was a hulking mass of once was..well..another huvel. Odd?! He turns and allows his feet to churn up the churt as he treads towards the ruin.

Metro Staff

Wed 06:28PM EST
Mae, who had secluded herself in the kitchen to make drinks (hospitality) and to stop herself from saying something out of place (she didn't believe Eliza's fibs), opened the back door for Carmon and looked down at the little child. Some of the tension was drawn away at seeing Carmen (mom instinct) and she drew the child in out of the cold (not the house was that much better).

"There now, child. You must be Dire's girl?"

Carmen

Wed 06:31PM EST
Her eyes widen as Mae and not mis'liza opens the door - but she knows a mom when she sees one and she smiles brightly and nods, curls tangled from her nap bouncing as she nods her head. "uh huh.. I's Dire's cub - I's a good cub too. Is mis'liza homes yet? My DIre had to go to do sumpin and I's supposedta checks in here first afore I go n play or anything...and wanted to be sure mis'liza's ok cuz someone putted holes in her walls.." brows knit into a frown - talk about rude. shouldn't puts holes into other peoples things...

Erik

Wed 06:32PM EST
He turns away, towards the door, still forgetting what effect his ruined, mauled, horrible face can have on people.

He has got to be the ugliest person little Carmen has ever seen.

He turns back when he sees her there, remembering the last child that ran screaming.

Litteraly.

But he is back, and he can feel the resistance in the woman. she doesn't want him anywhere near her young. Smart. Wonder why she lets the fuckin Fianna coward around her. "Don't worry. I won't even have to come near 'em... I'm gonna take their nightmares... And give em to Decker."

and don't think for one second -kid- that your alpha can't tell what your seethin about there. Pack is pack. If you don't remember that on yer own, Erik might find the mind to remind ya.

Metro Staff

Wed 06:34PM EST
"Eliza is talking at the moment, lass, but if you want I can make you some hot chocolate and... I think we still have some cookies somewhere in here."

This from Mae and Carmen, and thankfully Mae's ample figure was probably blocking most of the girl's view of the grotesque visage of the Alpha.

Ra'gon

Wed 06:37PM EST
Ah glyphs! Look at that. Thank beez to Jesus most Garou are cocky enough to mark their homes as such....of course never thinking of the 'hello..yes..here I am..come and get me' that it also sends out. Will they ever learn? Shaking his head quickly dismissing the thought as it came. More thankful actually it was there for him to see than anything. Fianna huh? Kinfolk huh? Wonderful! Now those blokes dont fool around and raise the ignorant ones. They'll know..but I wonder if they know they are standing in a ruin of a huvel? Maybe they are drunk. And with that he grins as he nears the front of that ruined cabin.

"Ello to those inside there...mind if I trouble yuz volks a moment. Im lookin for somvon" Glancing down at his crumbled envelope

Carmen

Wed 06:38PM EST
"oh nummy! thanks you! does you got marshmellows to puts in it? I likes marshmellows, but if ya don'ts got none that's ok too." She glances around but doesn't quite catch a look at the Alpha, not yet... and her attention is captured pretty quickly by the thought of cookies and stuffs. "Mis'liza gived me some cookies not last night buut the night before with hots chocolate and it was really good. Bestest cookies I ever tasted - I even shared one with decker even though he's a meany boogerbreath." all said in a single breath as she is quite happy to remain by Mae's side. "but he calls me by my name now so I guess he's ok"

James

Wed 06:40PM EST
he knows
he .knows.
and the dark gaze flicks up towards his alpha
he can't help it
pack is pack
and even if it's not his place to do anything about it
it doesn't mean he can't be upset at how a little girl is affected
quick enough, though, the angry gaze drops again

no sir, I don't need to be reminded

Eliza Bahn

Wed 06:42PM EST
"Would it be possible to put a time limit on what you intend to do?"

Because, while Decker always brought the worst out in her and had provoked a vindictive ire in the mother, she also ran deep into caring for others of the Garou Nation, tribe or not. It was why her home was open to all. She was a counsellor that helped remove such trauma, not someone who wished to continually inflict pain upon others: especially not those as fucked up as Decker appeared to be.

Erik

Wed 06:44PM EST
"Hmph." He can hardly believe her concern and dismisses it off hand. "watch you care?"

But he is already turning away, towards the front door, opening, whatever...

Ra'gon

Wed 06:46PM EST
"Silence! bravi'os beng! Baxt!" He spits as he jumps to the left abit, his arm swinging madly round, slicing the thin air in a wild sideward chop. Another jump to the right, a pivot, a twist of his torso and another flail from his hand crashes through the dark airy night.

Silence as he stands there. Eyes narrow with disgust and hate upon something unseen. Long he waits...silent as he stares into infinity.

With the sudden sound of the door, his attention once again recaptured, his dark seedy eyes glisten to his right. A grin sweeps across his lips, forcing his cheeks to lift.

"Ello..."

Decker Rohl

Wed 06:50PM EST
"You know, I fuckin' hate it when people talk behind my back."

Ah. Well. There's Decker. Waiting outside, hands in his pockets, more or less ignoring Ra'gon. He can feel his pack nearby; he can feel his Alpha. And there's Eliza, her and her nightmare'd kids. And her ...passion. There's a long hard stare from the Modi, before it turns to Erik.

There's no fear there, and only minimal deference: but there is respect. A damn lot of it. "Been wonderin' when you'd show up to kick my ass."

Eliza Bahn

Wed 06:51PM EST
"'Cause some of us actually have the ability to enter that spectrum of emotion that means we still give a damn about other people, regardless of how much the person is an asshole."

Probably not under her breath enough, because James would be able to hear her reply and being the living room wasn't huge Erik would have heard the offhand comment as well. Why was it that the Get always had that niggling, annoying ability to nudge someone just the wrong way just by existing and then doubling the problem by opening their mouths? In another time, another place, another situation, she possibly wouldn't have said anything, however, just as Erik seemed to be able to pick up the smaller intricacies of people's body language and emotions. She, herself, was also adept at such.

Metro Staff

Wed 06:53PM EST
Mae settles Carmen down in the kitchen with hot chocolate and a plate of cookies (all for her!), keeping the child out of the adult conversation in the living room and on the porch because a child was perhaps the least of what everyone needed to deal with at the moment. Especially when Carmen felt the need to refer to Decker as a boogerbreath meanie.

Erik

Wed 06:55PM EST
He heard her alright, and he don't feel like tellin her that she don't know him. Telin her that those damn emotions were what started this in the first place.

Fuckin people. He hates fuckin people.

But Decker. No, he likes Decker. He just doesn't likethe size of the britches he's been wearin latley...

And he ignores Ra'gon too, after a baleful stare. "That what yer doin back here? This where you hold all yer fights? Well, hang on. Lemme git the kids first. Maybe they wanna watch. again."

Carmen

Wed 06:57PM EST
Truth is truth and all, and to a four year old it comes out whenever it does (least she wasn't whispering this time, because that's always louder then anything else.) She climbs up on a chair and beams at the plate of cookies (all for ME!) and happily starts munching. Course, maybe mis Mae can answer her question. "Miss? I was wonnering - oh these are goood cookies! - Since I's living with Dire now and I's his cub, I needsta get him sumpin for chris'mis, but I don't gots no money or no way to shops or nuthin.. so i thoughts I might drawed him a picture.... but I don't gots no crayons.. does mis'liza gots some crayons I can use?" All dark eyed innocence and earnestness.. she really wants him to have something nice too... cuz santa's gonna find her.... shes gotsta help santa find her Dire too.

Ra'gon

Wed 06:59PM EST
The sudden appearance of Decker actually causes his hackles to raise. His preditary instincts taking play. The curl of his homid form lips quiver revealing only the tip of his incisors. Oh he knew this one. The GET.

Flashing a curtious smile and inclination of his head back towards the visiage of Erik. This must be the man of the house. Fianna? Yes...A bragging lot of boilsterous lushes, but a fair tribe of talegivers and warriors.

But that smile fades quickly as there seems to be trouble afray...Trouble between the GET and the Fianna? Another snear takes the place of his given smile. While clutching the envelope in one hand, his other wrestles itself into a fist. Enemy of my Enemy is my friend.

Shaking his head and clearing his throat..no need to make battle yet...its late and his missive has not yet been give.

"Excuse me, Pardon a moment, just a moment." Glancing down at his addressie "I am seeking the one who built the Ark..the Fianna. A finger to point my way is all I need" Glancing to the left then to the right "So I can find him where? So I may return you both to your fight?"

James

Wed 07:00PM EST
now isn't he in a lovely position
Decker's drawl greeted by a half glanced up glare
but he's looking back down again
Modi outranks him, too, and you just don't glare at your superiors
even if they're about to get ripped a new one
studyin the cracks in the floor infront of his chair, or something
and then Erik speaks to him
oh, yea, THAT is what he needed to hear

the Gnawer is clenched. down. tight
(thank Gaia for small favors in little gifts, hm?)

with what just may go down
he's wondering if he should just mosey out on back
pack dynamics, and all

Decker Rohl

Wed 07:02PM EST
A roll of powerful shoulders, accepting the barb from the Alpha without raising his hackles. Sullen, "Ain't woulda involved 'em at all if that fuck ain't been hidin' here like a lizard under a rock. Called 'im three times 'n he just hid. Told'im I was gonna come in 'n git 'im 'n he hid some fuckin' more."

Decker Rohl

Wed 07:02PM EST
to Ra'gon: (i'm just curious. how does ra'gon know decker?)

Metro Staff

Wed 07:03PM EST
Mae watches the little girl munching away on the cookies and babbling about christmas and cranyons before she nods.

"Wait right there, lass. I'll see if I can find some."

Lila's crayons were still in the house and were easily replaced. Wasn't this the time of giving and sharing? Well, maybe not among most of them (whole different religious thing going), but the child was obviously still in the Christmas mind and mood.

She heard Decker's voice as she stepped out of the kitchen and a frown deepened. She flicked a very unimpressed look at Eliza, for some odd reason, before she went to retrieve the crayons.

Erik

Wed 07:06PM EST
He steps out wholey into the open, and glares (ugliest mutherfucker I ever seen. damn cold stare too) shut up at Ra'gon.

"I know." Now he's walking down the steps, towards the Modi. "Whole damn tribe a fuckin cowards. Fuckin liquid courage cowards. And look at the muther fuckin mess you let one drag ya into now. Fuck Decker..."

Then, and only then does Ra'gon have his attention. "Now what's this?"

Carmen

Wed 07:06PM EST
"oh thank you!" Her delight is genuine and she sips her hot chocolate and waits as patient as the little girl can. She's already gots da bestest gift ever in her Dire.. and chris'mis is da best time of year! only thing close is her birfday but dats not for a while yets. oh - she fotgots to ask for paper! but she stays put - hot cocoa and cookies and the promise of crayons and she's quite the content little girl.
even though just feet away the rage weaves and rolls and just a ways away anger plays in tightened jaws and sullen voices. Little shoulders roll and brow furrows.. but cookies are so much more fun to pay attention too, don't you think?

Decker Rohl

Wed 07:08PM EST
Decker grunts and keeps his mouth shut while Erik sent Ra'gon on his way. Or prepared to tell Decker to kick his ass. Or something, or whatever.

Eliza Bahn

Wed 07:09PM EST
Standing so close to James he might notice the tense ripple of something (pain? anger? agitation? or something else entirely?) that pulled Eliza straighter at Decker's arrival (memories.flush.to.the.surface).

She crossed her arms around herself, fingers rubbing her upper arms slowly. Her eyes were staring blankly at the ground (seeing.nothing) and then flick up, narrowing. Insult the Fianna in a Fianna's house. How... polite. Grit teeth.

"Hypocrit." very, very softly under her breath so that James was most likely the only one who heard the hiss of her breath as words.

Ra'gon

Wed 07:09PM EST
Blinks...Blinks again...

Ok mistake number one..never assume anything ever again. Now nodding to himself.

Eyes swallowing the horrible visiage of Erik...wow..and his mouth does drop just abit..one of those..Damn dude..you's ugly brut..but he closes it quick.

"Ja Ja..I am looking for the Herder..Noah...Important message..I take it you are not he...his family? Or himself is where? Or have their pads taken them elsewhere?" Looking down at the envelope again mumbling something about delays in postal address changes.

James

Wed 07:13PM EST
not good
not good
just... stare at the floor, James

there's a dampened bristle at the hissed word
yea, he heard it
he just put two other factors together, too
but. says. nothing.

Erik

Wed 07:16PM EST
"Yeah, inside." He jerks his thumb towards the wreck of the house and turns his back on the messenger (boy).

Back to Decker. He just stares at him. Long moments pass while he wrestles with a decision or some inner turmoil...

Ra'gon

Wed 07:17PM EST
"Many thanks" And after the visiage is learing away he slides past him towards the porch in which he just came.

Eliza Bahn

Wed 07:18PM EST
(Insult the Fianna in a Fianna's house: change to Insult the Fianna on a Fianna's property)

She pushes off the table, bootfall against the rubble making her steps very carefully lest she trips towards the door.

"I am family."

Which was true, in the loosest sense of the term, being that they were kin by Tribe if not by blood or mating.

Dark eyes that were disturbingly dead or emotion or thought, flicker across the area, head tilted and listening to the play of voices. They pause on Decker for perhaps a shade too long before flicking to the sound of Ra'gon's footsteps on the porch boards.

Zoe Saldana

Wed 07:19PM EST
A cold winds blows. . . beneath the darkened sky

. . . The sound of a vehicle approaching Eliza's once happy home. Some may note it, others may not, but it came nontheless. She'd been to the Barrens since the entire debacle but hadn't, mercifully, seen anyone. She wasn't sure how well she may handle them. Eliza she could, Eliza was in a worse state then her, no doubt. It had been her family after all. Other reasons were why this hit her too hard. . . so the Jeep came, more to look over the aftermath once more, see what could be done, what may have been done. . . and because she didn't think she wanted another night out in the wilds of the Barrens in meditation. Solitude can only be one's guide for so long. . .

Ra'gon

Wed 07:21PM EST
With an outstretch of his free hand he opens his palm. His other still clutching the crumpled envelope

"Kinsmen or immediate family?" His voice detacted, somewhat professional..his hand awaiting payment as is norm to his profession.

Decker Rohl

Wed 07:21PM EST
Decker waits.

Decker isn't patient. He doesn't mind staring matches with Imogen, but - the woman was a little bit better-lookin than the Rotagar. He meets Erik's eyes for a moment before dropping his gaze, fishing his switchblade out to pick under his nails a moment: an absent gesture, because he was thinking too.

"Lissen," clicking the switchblade back - and then whatever Erik's supposed to listen to isn't spoken at all. Pack business. You figger out some way I kin atone fer the kids 'n kin, 'n I'll do it. But I ain't grovelin' to Gabe 'r nobody fer draggin' that ass who laid hands on my woman around a l'il bit.

Erik

Wed 07:24PM EST
"Yeah." did he read the Modi's mind?

Pack. fianlly, a real pack.

One thing Decker doesn't realize though. What he's gonna do to atone will be MUCH less pleasant than grovelling to Gabe.

No, strike that. Decker's gettin off easy. (have to go. dinner is here)

Eliza Bahn

Wed 07:25PM EST
"Kin."

She leans against the frame of the doorway, eyes never quite makig it to Ra'gon's face, following his voice instad, or even looking at the hand held out. Something keeps distracting her, (sightless) eyes flicking to one side of the Messanger towards the two conversing Get.

"Why?"

Erik

Wed 07:28PM EST
"Well, I got things to do. You better make some sort of peace with the kid. He's in there..."

and with a final, hard look, erik walks into the forest.

Ra'gon

Wed 07:29PM EST
Brows knitting together. Dropping his openned hand, his gaze drifts to linger a moment on what has her immediate attention.

With a sigh he returns to her "You have never done this before, this I can see. Come kin to the builder of the great ship...let me explain a few things. Then will your eyes open and see."

Smiling geniunely, his eyes upon her, his hand outstretched for her to capture

Zoe Saldana

Wed 07:31PM EST
. . . And that approaching vehicel makes itself known, coming to slow, then stop within Eliza's driveway. Few really ever saw her driving it, or in it, but some had, some knew it.

Zoe's Jeep.

Quite the crowd she could see, well, anyone was a crowd these days. Decker, Someone she didn't know leaving, Someone on the porch, and Eliza. Not what she had expected. . . as she slides from her Jeep. Pale eyes, lucid in full moon light weakly showing itself off and on. The feathery hair loose, since hiking wasn't her agenda tonight, and swathed in her hevay fleece coat. Even that couldn't hide the slightness of her. Small woman, but not weak. Never weak. . . though some might say otherwise. Feet moving slowly forward, glancing from Decker to Eliza to Ra'gon (stranger). . .

Eliza Bahn

Wed 07:33PM EST
"Open my eyes and I will see, huh?"

A wry twist of her lips, tone souring very slightly as she arches an eyebrow. She shakes her head and gestures for him to step into the living room of the cabin.

"Poor choice of words."

Ra'gon

Wed 07:35PM EST
He only bows and beckons her command, slipping behind her into the interior. Nodding once to James "Ello" he gives with a grin

Decker Rohl

Wed 07:39PM EST
A glance up. A faint tilt of the younger Fenrir's chin up for the elder, and then the elder is gone into the forest. Like a fuckin' phantom.

Left alone, Decker finishes cleaning under his nails and starts trimming them with the same knife. So James. 'Cause he could damn well feel him in there, too. Gonna feel better if you kick my ass around a bit?

Carmen

Wed 07:39PM EST
She bounces in her chair and takes another cookie (all for me!) and wipes her mouth with the back of her hand after another sip of cocoa. Mis'Liza's still talkin, she can hear her and she shifts in her chair agian and scratches her side under her coat and just continues feeding her latest sugar high.

Zoe Saldana

Wed 07:42PM EST
. . . She comes closer to Decker, while he busys himself with his knife and hands. Yeah, that was so terribly reassuring to see, since the last time she had seen him had been a towering form of wolfen rage. He hadn't been the warmest of people befoire in her opinion and now. . well, she was at least civil. Too many years of polite mannerisms to let it all go even if she would rather do so. . .
"Decker. . ."
. . . The acknowledgmant a sort of greetibng, maybe, as she moves to walk past him for the rather tattered and torn cabin. . .

Eliza Bahn

Wed 07:42PM EST
"Are you coming in?"

She could still feel Decker (in so many different ways) standing there, so she didn't follow Ra'gon in directly after he had slid past her. She just lent there, against the door frame, with her arms wrapped around her and thumbs rubbing her upper forearms (press the pain), eyes unerringly in his direction. At least tonight she didn't sound completely cool (glacial bitch) to the Modi.

Ra'gon

Wed 07:45PM EST
Upon the arrival of the little.....Napalese his face lightens up with glee "Ello" he says with a nod of his head...then his eyes glance from James..to her..to the back of Eliza's head. Then after a moment of pause..and frankly cause he felt kinda odd..he stooped forward towards James in a whisper "Do they know they have holes in their wall?"

James

Wed 07:45PM EST
yep
he's still sitting there, quietly
(seething)
a flicker of dark gaze up and a nod, up, in hello to Ra'gon
and while he can feel their Alpha moving away
he still hasn't really moved

to get up and leave and work off what's veritably boiling would include getting his backpack
which is by the front door
and he's pretty sure Decker is still there
and while pack is pack
he doesn't want to start anything because his temper is flowing (however sedated)
he values pack more than that

floor by the dining table must be real interesting
cause he's staring at it again
and then there's a half-snorted laugh
Only because you'd let me to make me feel better? the words are caustic and hard. as. steel No.
immediately he regrets saying it
sometimes you can't even control your mental tongue

and with a sigh he's up
moving across the living room
he's not going to add to the raised tempers that have been in the house

Metro Staff

Wed 07:49PM EST
Mae returns (belatedly) to the kitchen with a big box of crayons and deposits them on the table in front of Carmen with a stack of blank paper accompanying.

"Will that do ya, lass?"

Decker Rohl

Wed 07:50PM EST
Then what, James?

There's a delay in the reply during which he continues to trim his nails. The kinwomen, not involved in the mental conversation, might take affront in.

Then, quiet, "'Sup Zoe. 'N no, Eliza, I ain't."

As James appears at the door, Decker glances up at the Bone Gnawer before returning to his crude manicure. You tell me.

Zoe Saldana

Wed 07:53PM EST
. . . A small shurg. Take it as you want to, but she just didn't have polite conversation in her for him, not yet anyway. Her eyes catch on. . someone else she didn't know. Eliza had a full house tonight. Striding up the steps, to where Eliza and the other were, she offers them botha soft smile. More polite. . .
'Eliza, quite a party."
. . before glancing at James a moment. . .

Eliza Bahn

Wed 07:55PM EST
"Suit yourself."
You always do...

That to Decker as she tilts her head to the side, catching Zoe's voice and presence and motioning her in as James headed out.

"Come in, Zoe."

She stepped in and out of the way of the incoming and outgoing traffic, eyes falling in the direction that Ra'gon was in, but not on him

"You have something for Noah?"

Carmen

Wed 07:55PM EST
She smiles brightly as the crayons and paper are set before her and she nods, sending hair in tumbledown disarray. "oh thank you, miss! dese'll be perfect!"

Ra'gon

Wed 07:58PM EST
Again his brows furrow. "I do" And again his hand out stretches towards her, open palm laying in wait.

A moment later and he smiles both her and Zoe's way. "She is not Fianna...This I can see. Adopted then? Extended Family?"

James

Wed 07:58PM EST
there's a smooth sweep of hand to snatch the backpack from it's place by the door
he'll apologize to Eliza for just walking out unannounced later
but he's pretty sure she can feel he's still not a happy camper
even with the touch of her gift
which just makes it outright infuriating
but even with all that's happened here
and that the house is no longer the same
he still respects it for what it was
so takes his little temper right on outside

there's a pause, as he straightens
just.... glaring.... at the Modi
the poor Jansport succumbing to clenched fist in haphazard hang

I don't know. his gaze averts, that much is ingrained no matter what I'd love to pummel the shit out of you for what you ended up doing to Lila. not the house, not the Kin, not the Garou, not anything else - just Lila. But it's not my place or right to do so, is it.

Zoe Saldana

Wed 07:59PM EST
. . .Sliding into Eliza's cabin, with that same sweeping glance, grey eyes curious and guarded. That was new. Hadn't been guarded before, but then, Eliza never knew that. Ra'gon certainly doesn't, James wouldn't. . .Decker might. . but Corran and Noah would. She was holding more back then normal, flicker flashes of emotions weren't readable in flat lucid eyes. . .
"A friend, sir, of Eliza and Noah."
. . No, she had no family here, anywhere near. . stranger in a strange land. . .

Eliza Bahn

Wed 08:02PM EST
Frustration flares a little, a contagious reaction to the Rage that fair on permeated the air and infected those around them. He always seemed to do this. Ugh.

She slides her eyes to Zoe's direction and with a short, sharp sigh.

"I can hear him moving. What is he doing?"

'Him', probably referring to Ra'gon as she heard the shift of material of clothing from where she was standing.

Ra'gon

Wed 08:06PM EST
Eyes sqwint as his open hand raises and swishes back and forth before Eliza. With a sigh he turns his attention towards Zoe. "Please do not call me sir, formality is for those who believe in things I do not. I am Satarma Ra'gon Vysuher born of Vysuher, my peoples the Children of Sarrath. My pack the Roadrunners, whom have served many a master. Today I serve only one...the Fianna Clan from Inis Biard of the old world Eerie..or Ireland. It is from their elders that I come here." His glance turns towards Eliza "You trust your friend then to hear what I say? If so then by your leave I shall convey. But as you are not familiar with our postal ways...you must first pay me...in a different form of currency...it is our way. I shall ask you a question..if you choose not to reply..then so be it..I shall wait then for the builder himself"

Eliza Bahn

Wed 08:09PM EST
She gestures towards the kitchen with one hand, a motion for Zoe to perhaps give her and Ra'gon some privacy.

"Carmen is in there, Zoe. Do you mind?"

Family business. Tribe business. Go figure. That seemed to be the flavor of the month.

"Ask your question."

Zoe Saldana

Wed 08:11PM EST
"Formality keeps the veneer civil."
. . No other words for him, yet, as she looks to Eliza, whom she named friend, despite only the most cursory of meetings. . .
"He's waiting with an open hand Eliza. His question is up to you. You are Noah's kin, not I. I am merely a friend. I'll be in the kitchen."
. .but gives Ra'gon one last glance and words. . .
"I am Zoe Saldana, kin to Stargazers."
. . and leaves for the kitchen. . .

Decker Rohl

Wed 08:11PM EST
And the Modi stands looking back, the knife paused, a sliver of fingernail half-cut from the whole. He stands tonguing the outside of his molars, keeping his thoughts to himself, until:

You know I wouldn'a if I ain't had to do it. But I did. 'S how my priorities lie.
The women above the children.

Ra'gon

Wed 08:11PM EST
"What aisles the Ark Builder and his family?"

His eyes narrowing as he steps back only abit, head turning to watch Zoe's retreat from them. His brow arching on the kin to Monks

Carmen

Wed 08:14PM EST
Her cocoa is almost gone, but she's now completely immersed in her box of crayons and the picture chubby fingers are attempting to put to paper the way she sees it. the tip of her tongue is at the corner of her lips and brow knit in concentration...

Zoe Saldana

Wed 08:18PM EST
. . . She didn't know the Carmen that had been mentioned but ws soon to find out. Small 4 year old seated at the table, coloring happily. Zoe wasn't by any means a cold person, but she wasn't the mother type either. Some just don't have the knack, or acquire it only when they manage to have their own children. Strangers made her well, uncomfortable, and she was always all formality, but this was a child. Formality didn't really work. Offering a smile, that was gentle, if lacking mothering warmth, as she took a seat to pass time while Eliza conducted her business . . .
"You must be Carmen. Eliza sent me in to keep you company. I'm Zoe."
. . . Mostly true, but it was small talk. Not her greatest forte on good nights sometimes. . .

James

Wed 08:20PM EST
Do I?
lightning crackles in dark eyes
he's still trying to figure out exactly what Eliza did
and this slippery grasp on what he tends to know so intimately
is. not. helping.
he should be heading right on over the edge
but he's not.
he's staying rather... level
and that's confusing

Right now, I couldn't tell you anything I know you'd do, except let your fucking blood get your temper up and out of control where you acted without thinking. Your priorities fucked up a little kid. Where the HELL did you learn to think like that?
it must look really interesting
Decker calmly giving himself a manicure
James randomly gesturing to puncuate his words
yet not a sound between them

Carmen

Wed 08:22PM EST
She looks up and smiles brightly. "hi! Zoe is a pretty name. I gots lotsa names, wanna hear dem? Do you likes to color? are you a friend of my dire too? Mis'liza is doe my Dire doesn't think she likes him very much but I just thinks it takes a lil to get to know him cuz he takes good carea me... "
She doesn't seem to notice that soem aren't the mothering type - she chatters to them all. Even Rune - and the prized lipsticks is still in her pocket. she smiles and shows off her picture "I's makin a chris'mis card for my Dire.."

Zoe Saldana

Wed 08:27PM EST
. . . She'd forgotten how truly innocent children can be at times. Just chattering along, in her little zone, and its comforting and relaxing. She didn't know Carmen, but its hard not to be charmed by her, especially with the last few days. Looking at her little artistic work, she smiles a bit more. For now, this was fine. Problems, loyalties, Rage. . it could wait. . .
"Yes I know your Dire. Its good he takes care of you. I think your card is beautiful."
. . .Not even sure she got all the questions but trying. . .

Eliza Bahn

Wed 08:27PM EST
"I don't understand the question... Be a little more specific."

She closes the door behind her, leaning back against it and stares (uncanny.errily) in Ra'gon's direction as he speaks.

Decker Rohl

Wed 08:27PM EST
Calmly?
Calmly?

The half-cut nail suddenly rips off and the switchblade, thrown, impales the ground at James' feet. The Modi stands tense as a bowstring, pulling great deep breaths out of the moonsilvered night air.

Kinder-fuckin-garten, James.

Another beat, and then the Modi stalks forward, bends and rips the switchblade out of the ground, clicks the blade into the handle, turns, and starts walking off. James can follow for all he cares, but they were a little too close to kin. Again.

Ra'gon

Wed 08:31PM EST
"Forgive me then if my question seemed abit vague. Perhaps let us try to state it this way. I see a hovel with holes in which you live, I can tell that they are fresh and fairly recent. On your porch when I arrived, many a angry one reside. Your tone towards one in particular..and the fact that the Ark Builder himself is not present. Thus my question is simply put...what troubles the home of the builder...and his?..kinsmen"

Carmen

Wed 08:32PM EST
She cants her head slightly to the right and tangled curls slide along such babysoft jaw. "thank you. See - dis is our chris'mis tree - cept we don'ts really gots one yet - and me and my Dire and dis is my momma da angel cuz she's watching over us cuz she went to sleeped and never woked up.. hey! do you likes makeup? I meeted Rune lasted night an she gaves me some lipsticks. She's nice - but Dire says she can be mean sometimes but that's ok. Are you likes my Dire?" she lets that question hang...... because what her Dire's like is a secrets and all...

Eliza Bahn

Wed 08:34PM EST
"This isn't Noah's home, it's mine. He is a friend of the family. As to what happened here? Testosterone, tempers and a crinos deciding to go through the wall to get to what he wanted... starting a brawl in my home infront of my children."

James

Wed 08:35PM EST
he doesn't move as the switch flies
hey, after having a shank of rebar through your foot?
switchblades are child's play
he doesn't move as the Modi stalks, either
he may look down, at pertinent times
but he doesn't back down

actually moving forward
he knows they're too close to Kin, for whatever's going to happen
so weight shifts and he's following Decker
boots crunching on the gravel
whatever this is
it isn't over
move along, James, awaaaay from the cabin

he's silent otherwise though
all but biting his mental tongue
to snarl after his packmate as they're walking away?
he'd feel like a fucking rabid shreiking poodle yapping at his heels

Ra'gon

Wed 08:37PM EST
"A thousand pardons then I must give. I was under the impression that I was speaking to his 'kin'. His mate then or himself? It is for he that I was scent." His feet shuffling as he moves towards...the kitchen

Eliza Bahn

Wed 08:38PM EST
"Noah isn't mated, that I am aware of."

She shakes her head slightly, raising her voice to carry to the kitchen.

"Does Noah have a mate, Zoe?"

Zoe Saldana

Wed 08:38PM EST
. . . Plain faced Zoe. No makeup, no overwhelming beauty. Just what some considered a more exotic ethniticity. She chuckles a bit at the sprung dam of question in the little girl. Tucking long wips of hair back behind her ears, unpierced, she smiles still. Thats a record for her since the other night. . .
"Not exactly like Dire. If someone who is like him is, say, a sister, I would be a cousin. Does that make sense for you Carmen?"
. . . No idea how to explain I am kin to a 4 year old who she didn't even know. Its assumable that being here she is likely family of some sort, likelt Dire's family, but never assume anything. A byword for her. . .
"I'm not much for makeup, but I know Rune. She;s very good with it. If you like it, she is the best for showing you I think. I like plants."

Decker Rohl

Wed 08:40PM EST
A ways into the forest, the Fenrir stops. Turns around. Holds out his hands a moment, palms up, as though to say - well?

Ra'gon

Wed 08:42PM EST
Between the living room and the kitchen, his head swivels back towards Eliza, though unknownst to her, his face had grown quiet slack "Then his own home is where?"

Zoe Saldana

Wed 08:42PM EST
. . Voice raised, she looks up from Carmen's artwork. Eliza. . .
"No."

Carmen

Wed 08:42PM EST
She tips her head again and studies Zoe for a moment - you can almost see the little wheels turning, can't you? she grins then and nods, vigorously. "you's kin like me den.. dat's what my Dire says I am.. says I mights not be able to growed like he does but I's fambly. s'you a Get to?" and she giggles and nods "uh huh.. she putted lipsticks on me and meany boogerbreath decker tried to stops her but Dire said it was ok so I gots to wear it to mcdonalds to have icecream and play on da slides."
She carefully colors inside the lines of her chris'mis tree with her favorite green..
"plants? like flowers and stuffs or da kind you cooks with?"

Eliza Bahn

Wed 08:46PM EST
"Where does Noah normally live, Zoe?"

Again, she asks the other Kin, because, frankly, she knew more about Noah's personal habits than she did.

James

Wed 08:47PM EST
the walk gave him time to think
and sometimes? That isn't a good thing
So that's what happened to you.
a... breif... pause
fabric rustling as arms cross over his chest
Well congratu-fucking-lations, Decker, you just put her through kindergarten. She's gonna grow up to be an Ahroun. Just. Like. You.
that pause should have been longer
he -knows- he shouldn't have said that
not even through the Totem Phone
most especially not to someone that outranks him
most especially not to someone he knows can beat the shit out of him
which is probably going to happen about now
(fuckin'. full. moon.)
but yeh, the Gnawer said it anyway

Ra'gon

Wed 08:47PM EST
The kit's little voice eschewed to him there between the rooms, his lip instinctively taking a snarl upon it. Again his eyes level from one to the other. Finally resting on Zoe. "If you know more than she..then to you it is that I must speak. Will you aid me Zoe of the Stars?"

Noah

Wed 08:49PM EST
An ancient, grey-primered econoline van makes its way down the graveled road. Light beams cutting through the chilly night. Smoking pouring out of the tail pipe like some billowing smoke stack.. Battle-scarred, the van bore three slashing clawlike marks on the left side, the metal crudely welded back together with shoddy patchwork, gave the metal beast some character.. Battle-scarred and old, just like its master.. The windows were cranked open just a tiny bit to allow for some air to seep through. The heater running full blast. As the metal frame shook under the heavy vibrations of the bass, pouring from the stereo system. Rammstein, turned up to near defeaning tones.. It was making its journey long the road to the location of Eliza's burnout shack.. Slowing down as it draws near.

Zoe Saldana

Wed 08:50PM EST
. . Giving the child her attention once more, she nods as Carmen puts her analogy together. Smart girl. Reminded her of someone. . .
"No, I'm not Get, Carmen. I'm Stargazer. I like flowers and the cooking plants. I usually make the nice smelling lotions and tea with them that you can buy in stores."
. . An holistic herbalist, but she was 4. You just don't spew out such words. A smirk at the girl's appraisal of Decker. . liked her better already. Very smart girl indeed. . .
"Well, Decker isn't king, so you just listen to your Dire and Rune, when he tries to make you stop having fun."
. . . Surprised when Ra'gon appears, addressing her. She wasn't Fianna. . . just a friend of Noahs (she.liked.him) really. . .
"I can try. He doesn't have any permanent home I know of. I can give him your letter when next i se him. On my honor it would remain safely unread till he had it to see himself."
. . Honor of the Asains. . something one could trust in many times, and Stargazers. .well, you had to make your own call. . .

Carmen

Wed 08:54PM EST
"Dat sounds nice..." She nods, and giggles a little "I always listen to my Dire, he teaches me lotsa stuff." course, eh also gave a gun to a 4 year old. but we won't go there. The little girl trails off and loosk up at Ra'gon and she tips her ehad. "you still losted?" recognizing him from the other night when she was 'splorin with Dire..

Decker Rohl

Wed 08:54PM EST
One second, a man-shaped Modi.
The next, a bristling grey direwolf flowing through the air.

WHAM. Lands on James, their combined weight bearing them both bonejarringly to the ground. One on four paws (twenty claws), one on his back.

Words - human words, even in this form, because the insult was delivered long before his Change - That is NOT what happened. You don't know SHIT about what happened to MY MOTHER.

Wha...?

Kids grow up. Sooner the better. Then they can start fighting back.

Ra'gon

Wed 08:54PM EST
"Indeed Petal from Napal, I do trust in your plea. However..." Shaking his head "It is my duty as a Roadrunner to convey it from its sender and deliever it to its reader by my own hand." Giving her a smile, tucking the crumpled envelope away inside his pocket...glancing back towards Eliza "Your Eldest..the one from the holy grove..ThunderOak..you know he..for he too I look"

Eliza Bahn

Wed 08:57PM EST
"I have met him. Nothing more."

Relationships, even out in the community of the Barrens, were disjointed at the best of times. She rolls her shoulders in an approximation of a shrug. It wasn't like she went wandering around looking for ThunderOak: way too many trees to run into and all.

Noah

Wed 08:58PM EST
The van begins to slow down to a crawl, headlights cutting across the yard as it pulls up into driveway. The loud music announcing the van's presence before it is there.. It pulls up some distance from Zoe's jeep. The headlights, soon cutting out, as well as the music and engine dies..

Ra'gon

Wed 08:59PM EST
He shakes his head with a sigh. Glancing back to Zoe..downwards past her to the little.....he snarls....Just one my family must slay in years to come....and back towards Eliza "There is much harmony then between the tribes here?"

Eliza Bahn

Wed 08:59PM EST
She pushes off the inside of the front door she'd been leaning on, uncrossing her arms, turning and opening the door.

Full House, tonight...

Zoe Saldana

Wed 09:00PM EST
. . Petal from Nepal. Flowery and she blushes faintly. A stranger. . she hated it when they did that. . .
"I understand, of course. I wish you well in finding him."
. . . I can't eevn do that, but you're a wolf. Maybe you'll have better luck. . thoughts roiling but flat grey eyes glncing at Carmen, then Eliza, and back to Ra'gon. . .
"The Elder dwells in the Barren wilds. Beyond that again, I cannot help."

Eliza Bahn

Wed 09:01PM EST
"I wouldn't say harmony, per say. More a competition to see who has the most testosterone to throw around."

A vague comment tossed over her shoulder in answer to Ra'gon's question.

Carmen

Wed 09:02PM EST
She. was. ignored. Again. Four year olds don't take kindly to that, and all - she's little, and has to fight to be heard, but she giggles and shrugs and whispers in that kids whisper thats much louder then anything else to Zoe "he's still losted. he wants to givea message to a tree. ain't dat silly?" cuz she knows dat an Oak is a kinda tree cuz Tony on OutadaBox tol her so when she useta watch disney channel.

Ra'gon

Wed 09:02PM EST
"The Barren Wilds?" His brow arching as he looks back upon her, his face twisting in disguist again when they downward glance past her to the little monster behind her. "Which direction does this land lay?"

Jael

Wed 09:04PM EST
Smoke rising from the chimney of the small home as the grate to the insert is opened and a couple of pieces of wood are tossed into the fireplace. Closing the cast iron door and dusting her hands off on the thighs of her jeans. Rising in a stretch, then raking her fingers through her hair before heading towards the door to collect coat and tug on the stocking cap. After a moment a shaft of light spills from the opening door to run across the porch for a bare moment before the door is closed and the light gone once more.

Zoe Saldana

Wed 09:05PM EST
. . Tolerant. That edge gone from nights past. If they only knew how many hours she had spent in meditation to calm her own self. Rage could do that to the truly caring. . .
"Carmen, there is a man like Dire who's name is Thunderoak."
. . Calmly explaining, before giving her attention back to the adults. Maybe Zoe mihgt make a good mother, someday, Gaia willing. . .
"Cross the river. . . somewhere out there. The Barrens are a big place, afterall. But be careful. Evil lives there, in ground and tree and air."

James

Wed 09:05PM EST
he was expecting it
but the wind still gets knocked out of him on impact
bone still jars painfully when the ground rushes up all too fast

now he knows this is also a bad idea
but when it rains, it pours
No, I don't know what happened to her, and I'm sorry something did, but I know someone gave you nightmares. Just like you gave that little girl.
snarled inside their heads
the Modi went dire, the Gnawer goes chrinos
curling to draw his legs up
huge paws plant on belly and SHOVE
he follows to roll into a crouch
You teach them to fight so they don't have to fight back, you teach them how to never get backed into that corner inside the words spat, though a low growl rolls through the air You don't pass on the same scars that were lain on you

Noah

Wed 09:07PM EST
The van's door swings open with a creak. A 6'7, giant of a man, slips out of it. Leaning on the door frame to support his weight. He slips his keys into the front pocket of his jeans. The door slams shut with a loud bang. He walks around the front of the van, heading up the driveway towards the porch.

His favorite duster, defiled by the fire, a worn leather bomberjacket replaced it this evening. Layered over a thick, black thermal shirt and black and red checkered flannel, stretched to over a broad, barrel-chest and shoulders. A heavy mane of blond hair was pulled back loosely at the nape. A wide, dark red bandana wrapped around his forehead, keeping a few stray locks of hair from his face. Cold blue eyes, superior in vision than most mundanes, swept over the yard, towards the porch. His head lifts up to take in a deep breath, nostrils flare out to catch any unfamiliar scents.. Heavy work boots crunch over the tiny stoned road.

Jael

Wed 09:08PM EST
Snagging the canvas log carrier on the way off the porch. Figuring she'd grab a little wood from the pile before heading back in after a short walk around the perimeter of the yard.

Carmen

Wed 09:08PM EST
"oooooooooh.." That makes more sense.. though maybe da trees were like willow in Pochahantas and liked messages but she glances up at Ra'gon and barely restrains sticking her tongue out at him - but paying attention to her picture again, and changing colors.

Decker Rohl

Wed 09:10PM EST
Pushed back, the beast braces himself on four paws and doesn't drive the attack (again). Snarl for growl, the low ripple ripping its way through the calm night.

You teach them. Bitter. as. bile. I'm only good for the killing, remember?

CRACK. - a snap of enormous teeth, the sound of a dozen steel traps closing on air, a physical severing of the conversation. The direwolf wheels about, shrinks to the lupus form, and stalks stiff-leggedly away from the clearing they'd either found - or made in the scuffle.

Eliza Bahn

Wed 09:11PM EST
"Noah..."

A faint incline of her head to the Fianna as he crunched up the gravel driveway. She stood in the doorway, leaning against it (sometimes it's too hard to stand on your own two feet). She lifts a hand and rubs at her upper arm and shoulder absently.

"There is a messanger here for you."

Ra'gon

Wed 09:13PM EST
He laughs, and it is not a pleasant laugh but a deep malicious one at that. Eerie enough to make any creature's hair stand up or hackles to raise. "Evil? A term to describe something in all our hearts."

Shaking his head to rid himself of these thoughts, offering the Petal a new smile, geniune and begile. His tone soft like before. "You have the thanks of my people Zoe...may your fortune run true and no baxt ever be inflicted upon you."

With a sudden turn his boots clamour towards the door. There next to Eliza his words filter through a whisper "My thanks to you for your hospitality"

Noah

Wed 09:15PM EST
He bows his head in a nod to Eliza, glancing over at her first, before Ra'gon fills the door way. "A messenger?" An odd quirk of his brow goes up, he wasn't that known here.. but then again after the fiasco. Who knows how many people know now.

Carmen

Wed 09:16PM EST
Eyes widen at that laugh and fingers stop moving and she leans closer to Zoe as dark eyes lift again to Ra'gon... perfectly. still. she remains as she watches him walk away... "he's a bad man." barely whispered.

Eliza Bahn

Wed 09:16PM EST
"He misunderstood: thought we were mates. But you're here now, so I guess the messanger has done his job."

She steps out the door and to one side to give Ra'gon room to exit as Noah comes up the porch steps.

Zoe Saldana

Wed 09:18PM EST
"Fortune with you, as well, Satarma Ra'gon."
. . . Even as his back leaves the room. Turning back to Carmen, she shakes her head and rises. . .
"Not bad, Carmen, but different. Remember that. Not everyone will agree with you, but that only makes them different, not wrong or bad. Stay here and work on your card while I go look in on Eliza."
. . . And another gentle smile as she leaves the kitchen for the front rooms. . .

Ra'gon

Wed 09:18PM EST
His own brow arches just before his head inclines.

"Greetings Builder, I have a missive to you that I must deliever. From my Sister...whom you have met. I am Satarma Ra'gon Vysuher born of Vysuher."

And like before with Eliza he opens his free palm to accept payment for his services..should the Fianna know how it is done.

Jael

Wed 09:19PM EST
Returning to the wood pile after doing a circiut of the yard. The faint sound of logs moving against logs as she collects a few, laying them on the canvas. After several minutes, grasping the handles and rising to turn back for the porch and house.

Carmen

Wed 09:21PM EST
Maybe miss Zoe didn't hear the laugh the same way she did.. but she just nods, and after a few minutes (hope mis'liza's ok...) she turns back to her card and her coloring.

James

Wed 09:22PM EST
a low sound rattles in the crisp air
throttled enough to break the icy atmosphere
broad head shaking at the physical lancing of their connection
that hurt about as much as getting slugged
(if not more)

this time he doesn't follow
he wants to, he wasn't done saying what he wanted to
but even furious, he respects those that outrank him
and there's no doubt in his (aching) mind that the Fostern has ended their conversation for the night
handpaw swings out, dormant bark splintering beneath the volatile talons
frustration vented in animalistic gruntgrowlsnarlbellowhowl

it's quite a few minutes later that he's able to shift down, grab the pack
and head off in another direction about 45 degrees from the other's path
yea.... there should be some road.... eventually

Decker Rohl

Wed 09:55PM EST
A time later, and miles of walking, trotting, and finally all-out running later, the grey wolf circles back, approaching the Bahn residence (a fuckin hub of activity tonight) from the east. Tongue lolling, tail held at a low, straight angle, neither tucked nor raised (simply...indifferent), the fourfooted tread slowly bleeds into a twofooted one.

Hospitality glyphs still swing on the wind. He finds irony in that.

The shape of Noah is unmistakeable. The bandana covering the brow makes Decker smirk. Or sneer. Other than that, he has little enough to say or do to the Fianna, and stands off the porch, and a distance away, eyeing the somewhat shoddy job: plywood three-thick on the holes. Sure didn't make her property value go up, that was for sure.

"Need to talk to you, Eliza."

Noah

Wed 09:58PM EST
He flicks a gaze over to Decker in passing. "Don't be too pleased, Decker. The glyph is already healed up without a scar." He comments in a casual tone. Though, it was hard to hide the bitterness it dropped to.

Eliza Bahn

Wed 10:00PM EST
Eliza reaches out the hand that she'd been rubbing at her upper arm with and rests it gently on Zoe's own arm.

"I'll be fine. Just a few bruises."

Spoken as a comment between the Kin womenfolk, as the men prattled away among themselves about their own business.

By the truck Mae catches the comment and snorts, turning to look at Decker and her eyes narrow to slits as her lips purse into a line. She looks up at Eliza on the porch, looking ready to say "no", but keeps her peace. It was the other Fianna Kin's decisions. She'd get a few choice words from the matron later, but that was neither here nor there.

Eliza steps forward, touching Noah as she passes and speaking softly.

"Don't. Please, just don't."

She uses the handrailing along the porch as a guide as she markes her way down the steps and forward a few feet on the gravel.

"If you want to talk privately, you're going to have to help me, Decker. King isn't with me tonight."

Noah

Wed 10:01PM EST
He bows his head as Eliza passes him by, looking to her.. "I need to speak with you, Eliza. When you have the time.."

Ra'gon

Wed 10:01PM EST
"It is not what she has to say, but rather what she has to give"

His warning heed did not bristle him in the least. To busy was he gazing past the garou to the Specter that was plaguing him since his arrival. His hand raises, inside its clutch was a crumpled envelope. It is here that he extends his delievery..and it is here he speaks quiet candidly.

"We are the Roadrunners..or what remains..." glancing past towards the cabins that are aways "Our journ has taken us many a place...many a battle...but leads us here after our little stay. Somehow and I do not question it, you have impressed upon my sister a since of value that I have never seen her bestow upon a Gaje before. It is by her will alone that she bid me to do this. If you...."

Glancing back at Decker with a sneer then towards Noah to finish his delievery

"find yourself needing us...she requests that you only accept us." Shaking his head, easily his demeanor could be read...he did not agree, but he followed it anyway.

"Gemile offers you the Roadrunners as your own should you desire to lead us........the choice is yours. I will leave you now as I must seek the Eldest..but you may leave your answer with the kinfolk Jael here in this village. I will see her soon enough"

His envelope holding hand still outstretched for him to take

Decker Rohl

Wed 10:04PM EST
A twist of the mouth: smirk, sneer, something. "'N don't be too ungrateful, Noah," cool southern drawl.

Ra'gon, once again, is ignored.

A quirk of an eyebrow at Eliza. A shrug. "Whatever."

Zoe Saldana

Wed 10:04PM EST
. . . Eliza was a popular woman tonight it seemed. Standing there, silent after her words. Just watching. Noah and Decker, animosities cutting like knives in the air, and all that latent Rage just waiting for a spark to set the full moon bonfire roaring. She remembered Gemile, not fondly, so pays Ra'gon little attention, mostly watching Eliza and Noah for now. . .

Eliza Bahn

Wed 10:06PM EST
A slightly exasperated sigh as she holds a hand out to Decker, a very curt gesture.

"It means leading me and not just by your voice."

Outside there were so many more things to trip over, after all. The last thing she needed was to fall or run into a tree... or another wall.

Decker Rohl

Wed 10:08PM EST
"Oh."

A beat.

"Touchin' you again, eh?"
Another, before he takes her hand.

"Well c'mon then."

Eliza Bahn

Wed 10:12PM EST
"Yeah. Touching. Again. Who would have thought?"

A vague sembelance of sarcasm rippling through her voice, but for the most part, it was most likely for a bonus for all involved that she wasn't being a complete and utter bitch to him like sevearal nights ago. Then, the moon hadn't been this close to full. Give it a few and the moon would be at it's glory (she still kept tabs on the moon phase) and Decker at his worst.

She wraps her fingers around his hand and gestures for him to lead on.

Decker Rohl

Wed 10:15PM EST
Well ain't this romantic. A nice moonlight stroll: just the pissy Fianna kin and the raging Fenrir full-moon.

He doesn't take her far. Didn't need Noah and friends charging out after him to see if he was going to take advantage of another Fianna kin, or something. East they go, toward the distant sea invisible from here, and along the quiet roadside, where there were fewer trees and rocks to run into. When the house is a small glimmering point of light, he stops and lets go of her hand.

"Show me yer arms."

Noah

Wed 10:16PM EST
"I know, Jael. I've had the pleasure of meeting her once." He accepts the grumpled envelope. The look of surprise was evident on his face. It wasn't often he bore such a look. He bows his head to Ra'gon. "I will need time to think on it. My thanks, Ra'gon. Bid your sister a greeting for me and if you will, carry a missive to ThunderOak when you find him. I would like to speak with him. You may be better capable of tracking him down than I."

He is still stunned by the offer, opening the envelope to read what was inside.

Eliza Bahn

Wed 10:17PM EST
She quirks an eyebrow before she holds out both her arms, clad in a thick and heavy knit sweater to ward off the cold as best as possible.

Zoe Saldana

Wed 10:18PM EST
. . . Felt like the fifth wheel, literally. She slips down to sit on Eliza's stairs, mostly watching, not much to say when everyone was busy doing their thing and too polite to eavesdrop or interrupt. Tucking back a wispy tendril of ebony hair that the wind decides is a toy, she seems perfectly content to just wait. Solitude was her guide afterall. . .

Decker Rohl

Wed 10:18PM EST
He looks at her sweater.
He looks at her.

"I said yer arms, not yer fuckin' sweater. Roll the sleeves up."

Eliza Bahn

Wed 10:23PM EST
Count back from ten. nine. eight. Bite your tongue. seven. six. Ignore the confrontation with the man who had the charisma of a brick. five. four. She pushes the sleeves up her arms, jaw muscles clenching slightly. three. two. one.

"Better?"

Ra'gon

Wed 10:24PM EST
Inclining his head "I will deliever you request for an audiance with your tribal elder when I find the Great Oak. To he I must deliever a missive from his own eldest...."

Canting his head to the side slightly

"You have yet to come to our fire, and you have yet to offer payment for this missive. Perhaps you are unaware of our ways in such bargains. This is easily forgiven...but I must ask you a question...and you must answer as payment. What aisles the Fianna and their houses? For I see them wrecked..and I see warriors scuffling and arguing about its step"

Decker Rohl

Wed 10:26PM EST
Count back from a hundred. Ninety-nine. Ninety-eight. Fuck this.

"Show me the fuckin' bruises, Eliza."

Ra'gon

Wed 10:26PM EST
His eyes narrowing there in the shadow upon Noah...surveying discretely why his Pena' favored him so. What did this Gaje have to offer in way of wisdom? Or does she see him as a instrument? If so..then why forbid me to bujo? Hmmmm....

His eye slides towards the Stargazer

Noah

Wed 10:27PM EST
For the first time, in days.. or weeks it seems. Noah laughs. The sound is rich, deep in his baritone voice. Like a mountain giant, laughing at some silly joke. A humorous expression crinkles on his face, along with a wide grin. It is not often, small things shift him towards a good mood. Gemile's letter did.

"I have yet to find your fire.. I have been to distracted from that task. As for your payment. I remember, Ra'gon." He turns his head, looking over the cabin, drawing in a slight breath to exhale in a low sigh.

Zoe Saldana

Wed 10:28PM EST
. . . Just sitting, she had slid to the porch and was in her ever so twisted an agile lotus position, letting the realtive silence lull her, eyes closed as she slowly, ever so slwoly breathed. Deep deep serenity in her, when she let the walls down. . . meditating on the porch of the cabin that attracted rage like flies. . .

Eliza Bahn

Wed 10:32PM EST
There is only so far that the sweater sleeves can be pushed up before they bunch enough that they won't go any further, more so with such thick cotton. A thinning of her lips, boarding on getting uppity with him, but she bites back what she thought to say and just pulls the sweater up and over her head. She holds the clothing in one hand and extends her arms, frowning. She had only wearing a fitted sleeveless undershirt the very thick and warm sweater, so it left the mottled marks he'd inflicted on her in his temper well visible, even though it was night time.

Noah

Wed 10:34PM EST
"Deception. Misunderstandings. A Fenrir's jealousy and his rage have wrecked havoc upon the house of my kinswoman. The Fenrir and I.." he gestures off to where Decker and Eliza wandered to.. "Got into a scuffle. He came storming upon the property two days ago to call me out. He came to deliver a thrashing as well as humiliation for something I could have done to his now claimed mate. A woman I once called kin. It was a misunderstanding. His mate goaded me, I almost lost control.. If it wasn't for the telling of tales from He Who Tips the Scales. None of this would never had happen. The Coggie informed Decker of what happened between his mate and I. It was Fianna tribal business that Corran had interferred in at the time. Now it escalated into something more.. And there will be more mishappens from it." his words rumble in a soft growl. There is a loathing in his voice as he speaks about Corran.

Decker Rohl

Wed 10:35PM EST
There is only silence from the Modi. That is all she knows of him.

If she could see, though, she would see his lips compress, his eyes narrow. He reaches out with one hand, stopping just shy of touching her, fingers fitting the marks exactly. Of course. He'd put them there.

A breath out. He drops his hand away. "Put yer sweater back on." And when she had, "Why'd you do it?"

Eliza Bahn

Wed 10:41PM EST
She pulls the sweater back on after a moment and fumbling with the arms, pulling her hair out from under the sweater neck and flicking it back over her shoulders. She crosses her arms around her (defensive).

"Do what? Piss you off? ... Believe me, it isn't that hard. You have the temper control of a seive."

Ra'gon

Wed 10:42PM EST
Long he remains in silence as he stares completely upon Zoe...then he turns his head slowly towards Noah. His own demeanor calm like that of a wethered but deadly seaborn storm. "I know all to well the hospitality of the Fenrir. Yet what you convey is blasphomey even from their standards. If it be true that one of your own has taken a Fenrir into their bed to wed..then they are not Fianna...but now like he whom with they sleep. This is the way of the Nation...but I ask you before I go..perhaps more as food for thought. Did the Fenrir submit his claim to the eldest Fianna for her hand before he raged upon your clansmen? If not...who has been wronged? If so...what dowery to the Fianna did he bestow?"

Looking long and hard at Noah he finally offers a glimmer of a grin.

"A enemy of my enemy is my Friend. We who follow Tetsie know this better than the rest. Revenge is a dish best served cold.....It is cold here in New Jersey is it not? But..." And his malicious hateful glare glistens only abit "How far will your revenge go?...Mine knows no end....beware such a door...Once you open it..." And he quickly ends...turning his gaze back to Zoe

Decker Rohl

Wed 10:45PM EST
A shake of his head. "I know why you pushed my buttons."

Because she's empathetic like that. Because he's astute like that, once in a while. Because she knew it would bother him afterwards that he'd left the mark of his hands on her, just as it'd bothered her that her children were frightened of the monsters from the dark now.

No, he was asking about something else.

Zoe Saldana

Wed 10:46PM EST
. . . Oblivious she was the subject of anyone's gauge, used to being alone, overlooked, or the outsider looking in too many times to mind. It just was. You don't fight your fate, after all. . . very bad for Karma. She can hear the soft roll of words nearby but not what they say, only whitenoise to her as she meditates, body so still, yet never looking anything but fluid . . in. . .out. . .in. . out. . only thing missing was the sage. She had her jasmine, but no sage. . .

Noah

Wed 10:49PM EST
"I know all about revenge.." He murmers, almost quietly. He's been down that road before.. But that was another life.

He thinks on Ra'gon's words, nodding his head. "I know that this kin is now Fenrir. The reason for my speaking to her in the first place was to get confirmation on the Fenrir's claim over her. This woman is not one to be claimed, by anyone of the Nation. And I shall bring this up to the Eldest of my Tribe.. All the more reasons I wish to speak to ThunderOak. And he's bestowed no dowery.." He looks back down to Zoe now, his thoughts carried into a different light.

Eliza Bahn

Wed 10:50PM EST
"Why did you?"

Answer an unspoken question with a verbal one. If he wanted an answers to what was obviously bothering him, then he'd have to be forthcoming with answers of his own. Because she was a cousellor like that. Making him think about his own actions as well as those of others. .... and because she was a bitch like that, also.

Decker Rohl

Wed 10:52PM EST
"Same reason I did that." A brief gesture at her arm. "Lost my fuckin' mind fer a minute. Now answer me."

Ra'gon

Wed 10:54PM EST
Another incline from his head, again his eyes fall from her to Noah's chest. "Till then Builder...I bid you adue. May no further baxt come upon you and yours. I will soon have your reply to my Sister's words...a fortnight...and not a moment more. Till then....till again."

Quickly he shifts not through his forms as most, but directly into his scrawny limber lupis form...not nearly like that of a wolf. Instead a long sleek Jackel...ears high, tail bushy, but coat as soft, short and pure....Solid midnight black, mirroring that of a dark cat..but his eyes were even darker than that...those born from deep quests many tribes ignore. A blink before his run...and like a blur his pads speed him on another coarse.

Eliza Bahn

Wed 10:55PM EST
"Why do you care why?"

Because without reasons, explanations, to why things happened so they could be pigeon holed then the world wasn't black and white. It tumbled into a gray, hazy area and left you fumbling around in the dark like a blind person.

Noah

Wed 10:56PM EST
"Farewell, harbinger.." He closes the envelope, folding it up to tuck it into his back pocket. He turns, stepping up onto the porch. HIs eyes cast down to Zoe now.

Zoe Saldana

Wed 10:57PM EST
. . . the whitenoise of their speech is as noticable as the silence as she sits there, and the breathing becomes more regular, less rhythmic. Her eyes not open yet though but losing that almost mystical quality she can have at such times. . .
"I hope I was not intruding Noah."
. . . Eeerie her talking without looking up at him or anything. . almost as if she liked the simple dark of her eyelids, for now. . .

Noah

Wed 11:01PM EST
"No, you were not. Tell me. Do you still have that gift, sweet Petal of Nepal?" His voice drops to that same soft tone. Perhaps too soft, it sounded odd in the baritone depths of his voice. As if, this man could be anything else, but gentle in demeanor.

Dire

Wed 11:01PM EST
*He exits the shack again and streches. He goes walking though the sno twords the Jetta parked in the driveway of E's house. His steel toed combat boots crunchintg heavily as he goes. Pausing as he rounds the corner of the big house and sniffs the air and turns slowly to look at Noah and Zoe.

He's a tall lanky Skald. every bit the Aryan poster boy. Steel toed combat boots, jeans, a blue flannel under a leather jacket two sizes two large on the 6'3" man. The tail of a long iron crowbar peeking out of the coat, even as it's too large. A stern face with dark black Get tattoo over the left brow. Platinum blond hair under a neon green toboggin cap. Icy blue eyes*

Zoe Saldana

Wed 11:04PM EST
. . . Didn't know Dire has appeared, in her self imposed blind state, but a soft smile, rare these days it seemed, and the faint blush appearing. So the gypsy had brushed off on him. It was sweet, flowery words, but a tiny poignant prick at the fact that she was the only petal of Nepal anywhere around here. Head canting up, where she heard Noah, and her pale eyes opened. . .
"I do. . if you still wish to accept it, Noah."

Dire

Wed 11:05PM EST
*He pauses watching these people. Knowing them not. He sniffs the air again. One was of pure blood. The other, not so much*

Decker Rohl

Wed 11:09PM EST
"Quit dodgin' the question."

Noah

Wed 11:09PM EST
He drops to down to a crouch beside her, arms resting on his thighs as he regards her. "I would like it." His voice remains in that same odd gentle tone for the moment.. But it dies away once Dire's presence has been made aware of by Noah.

His eyes flick upward, cold blue orbs staring up at Dire, taking in his image, falling upon the glyph tattoo. His demeanor changes suddenly, becoming withdrawn and cold.

Eliza Bahn

Wed 11:11PM EST
"I'm not. I want to know why you care why it happened."

She transfers her arms from behind wrapped around her waist to planting one on each hip. If he hadn't known she was blind he sould have thought she was staring at him unerringly in the face.

Zoe Saldana

Wed 11:12PM EST
. . . A smile, like sunlihgt from behind a cloud, as she reachs into her jacket for the tin that had rested there, nestled in fleece and body heat in case he wanted what she had made. About to hand it over, she notices the change, and looks away from him. . seeing Dire. Always something killed those brief glimpses. . . always something. . . and she sighs softly. . . small tin clasped in small hands. . .

Decker Rohl

Wed 11:14PM EST
He grinds his teeth. He could argue over how he'd already answered one question, how she'd answered none, how the score was now 1-0, whatever. In the end, he snaps, " 'Cause I feel like it. 'Cause it ain't gonna happen again. Now answer the fuckin' question."

Dire

Wed 11:14PM EST
*He arks a blond brow. the one with the Get tattoo over it. He turns fully twords Noah now, his observance gone from curiosity to a bit of anger. He doesn't know the guy from Adam. He's placed the Kins scent now. But Noah he doesn't know. He just knows some big smuck is giving him the hairy eyeball and he don't like it. His chi dips and the already icy blue of the Skals eyes drops to absolute 0. he reaches up taking off the toboggan cap and stuffs it in his pocket*

Noah

Wed 11:18PM EST
Fenrir were crawling out of the woodwork, showing up in the homes of the Fianna. He grunts words out to Dire. "I didn't know Eliza was keeping more guests. Cold night to be wandering around."

He returns his attention, back to Zoe, offering out a gloved hand, fingers bare of leather, from the second knuckle to fingertips. Palm faced up for reception of the tin. He sees the displeased look upon her face, but his own does nothing to mirror it. He keeps his face expressionless.

Eliza Bahn

Wed 11:19PM EST
"Do you think I don't know this already? It seems to be something you bring up every single time we're in the same, regardless of the situation at hand."

He either brought it up. Or ran away. The start of an annoyed frown slowly pulls her eyebrows together, expression darkening slightly.

Dire

Wed 11:20PM EST
*He jerks his head* The pup and I share the back cabin. * he sniffs as the other relents on his stare. Good enough for the young skald. He sniffs just once more nailing down Noah's scent in memory and moves over to the tricked out Jetta*

Zoe Saldana

Wed 11:21PM EST
. . . It was control, always control, to bring herself back to that calm neutral demeanor, Face composing swiftly to one unreadable, eyes flat. Whatever light had been there flicker flashing out, to be lucid pale again. . .
"Good evening Dire."
. . Polite. Must be at leats polite, if nothing else. He was garou. Hand lifting to lay the gift in Noah's palm, her eys following up to his face a moment with it too, then elsewhere. He had been warm a moment. . it was there. . . and just as quickly gone. Almost like her at times. . . walls up and down like a drawbridge. . .

Decker Rohl

Wed 11:21PM EST
"Eliza," the word carries the weight of oceans, quiet as it is, as she delays yet again - "answer. the. motherfuckin. question."

Breath.

"Why did you do it?"

Eliza Bahn

Wed 11:26PM EST
"For a lot of reasons, most of which you probably wouldn't understand, Decker."

She closes her eyes for a moment, eyelashes kissing her cheeks, and takes a breath of chilled air into her lungs and lets it out slowly. Calm down... She opens them again, not seeing Decker, but staring into his face nonetheless.

Dire

Wed 11:27PM EST
*he sniffs and looks over blinks and nods* Good evening Gazer of stars. You wouldn't happen to know anything about rasing pups would you? Or... wrapping presents? * He opens the trunk and damn if the tall lanky Get doesn't pull out a Stitch doll and an amanda doll*

Noah

Wed 11:29PM EST
His fingers close around the tin, he pulls open his coat and puts it into a the pocket inside. He lifts his head up to watch Dire, shifting his weight to sit down on the first step of the porch.

Decker Rohl

Wed 11:33PM EST
Seething - so. damned. difficult! - he rubs his hand over his head, sets them on his hips as he paces to and fro. Stops. Looks at her. "Name some," he fires back.

Zoe Saldana

Wed 11:33PM EST
"Not really Dire, but make sure to get a Christmas Tree, or Carmen will be disappointed."
. . . The child may be Get, something she was not dealing well with lately, but she was a cutey, and Dire was mainly polite, if a bit odd at times. Shifting some in her seat to make sure Noah had enough room to sit, she glances over. He didn't seem comfortable . . .
"Did you want to go for a walk Noah?"

Dire

Wed 11:35PM EST
*He walks over. Romance being one of the nuances that are often lost on a Get metis. Taught that their only worth was in the nation of the nation and for the nation they were Not pited. They werer given the same chance as any get was. Their inheriant weakness NOT GIVEN EXCEPTION. NOR did the Get metis EVER ask for Mercy. They overcame their disabilities, they conquered them, mastered them and because of that and living up to the get Ideal they were some of the most poweful Garou on earth. At least inturnally.* Ohhhh is that what you call them? I saw them all around town. * he nods and holds up the two presents* How do I wrap these? Wait... * his eyes narrow* WHen did you meet Caremn?

Zoe Saldana

Wed 11:39PM EST
"Tonight. Eliza asked me to keep her company while she tlaked to some people. Your cub is quite a charmer."
. . . Slight smile at the memory. Maybe she would make a good mother someday. Of course the image of Zoe with a child seems odd, and not. . ,gues you just had to know her. . .
"Take wrapping paper and covere them however you want, then tape it closed. Carmen won't care. Its the opening she will like."

Noah

Wed 11:40PM EST
He settles his elbows on his knees, interlocking his fingers together. He seems to be concentrating on the two items in Dire's hands. He glances down at Zoe for a moment, then speaks up as he returns his gaze to Dire.

"You'll probably have to put them in a box of some kind and wrap them with wrapping paper, Dire."

Eliza Bahn

Wed 11:40PM EST
Whoever said the women were easy to understand? Weren't they always confusing and diffcult?

"Because I could. Because I knew you'd hate it. Because I thought you'd run away like every other time you have come within a hairsbreath of me. Because I was -am - mad at you. Because I still like you, regardless of how much of a primitive fuckhead that you've been to me and how much you have hurt my family. Because you were so wound up, that anything to stun you out of your temper tantrum was better than you hurting me more. Because I can feel your rage and your pain. Because I wanted to know. Because of adrenaline. Because of fear. Because it seemed appropriate to the moment. Because maybe I lost my mind as well. Because I wanted to."

He asked for reasons, he was getting reasons.

Noah

Wed 11:41PM EST
"I'm fine for now, Zoe.. Which reminds me. I need to finish working on Eliza's christmas gift.." he replies in a casual tone. He regards Zoe for a moment.. distracted by thought and looks away again.

Dire

Wed 11:42PM EST
*he nods and smiles* SHe's a good Pup. Will make a good Get one day. She learns fast and is tough. Has her on gun and all. * he nods looking at the Amanda doll in it's own box. Ok that part is taken care of but the blue Stitch with 4 arms and 2 legs was just kinda hanging free. Gonna have to find a box for that. he sniffs the air* Seen Ms Eliza? * he nods to the Cabin* I havent smelt any cookies in a few days.
* Yes he's seen the holes. Those were explained to him. After a fashion.*

Zoe Saldana

Wed 11:46PM EST
"Eliza is busy Dire, talking. I'd really recommend not interrupting her."
. . . before looking back at Noah, the ever shifting points of conversation, and always giving attention where needed. . ro she wanted to. . .
"Just making sure. May I ask what you're getting her?"
. . Idle curiousity. Why she wanted to know her own business. . . christmas. . sounded lonely this year. . .

Dire

Wed 11:48PM EST
*The young Get raises a brow and tilts his head. Oh the kin would recommend him not intrrupt another kin would she. He sniffs and looks back at the dolls in his hands and grunts. Looks around for Eliza anyway Moving over to peek in a window after climb the steps*

Noah

Wed 11:50PM EST
"Eliza is having a talk with Decker, Dire. They went off to have a private conversation. You may have to wait in line to speak with her. I'm waiting to talk to her next." he watches Dire casually, rolling his shoulders beneath the bomberjacket.

He gives Zoe a side-ways glance. "A new home if I can work the details out. first"

Dire

Wed 11:52PM EST
*he nods and grunts to Noah* It's not like I want to discuss the inner workings of the bovines digestion track. Just wondering about cookies. * He looks at the things in his hands and is feeling rather silly and leaps over the rail, lands in a crouch, stands and walks back over to the Jetta and hides them in the trunk again*

Zoe Saldana

Wed 11:54PM EST
. . . Someone had told her to stop thinking in terms of herself as mere kin, but lately, it just wasn't worth the derision. She looks away from them both, face unreadable as usual. . .
"She'd like that, better then this, I am sure, or staying in my apartment, or that motel she has been at."
. . . Quiet words, audible to Noah, but probably not much past that, talking to her hands. . .

Decker Rohl

Wed 11:56PM EST
And then there was silence.
A very. long. silence.

All the crickets are dead. It's winter, almost the solstice, and the light of the moon doubly frosts the world. The only sound in the pine barrens is the wind through the trees.

At last, with some difficulty, "I'm sorry about yer arms. 'N yer kids." A pause, thoughtful. "Gonna keep bringin' groceries if you want, but think it's best if I don't stay to talk after."

Noah

Wed 11:57PM EST
He nods his head, lifting it up to stare off in the direction that Decker and Eliza were off to. His eyes squint, trying to scope them out. "I know she doesn't like the city, but I imagine she doesn't want to stay in this place. So.. It might be best to start anew. I owe it to her. She.. risked her house to protect me by refusing to open the door. I helped cause its destruction. The least I can do is try to put a new roof over her head. She is my kinswoman.. I try to look out for my kin.."

Dire

Wed 11:59PM EST
*he arks a brow at all that. He'd only had a very base explination of the events that caused the holes. He looks at the cabin* Can the pup and I have this house then? It's larger. She'd be warmer....

Zoe Saldana

Thu 12:02AM EST
"I know."
. . Knew what? She obviously wasn't saying. Oh those walls. Had been reserved before but now. . . she closed off. Unreadable. Untouchable. . .
"She's a good woman."

Dire

Thu 12:04AM EST
*He nods* SHe smells good. * He leans aginst the porch railing and crosses his arms sniffing the air and waiting for Decker. Now he wouldn't really care more than a little about intrrupting a Kin, but he had no want of an asskicking tonight by Decker.*

Noah

Thu 12:04AM EST
"The house's foundation may have some faults in it. We'll need to fix it up and have it inspected to make sure it's safe for you and your pup, Dire. But That will be up to Eliza if she chooses to give it to you." It wasn't his house. He didn't have say over it..

He turns his head to look back at Zoe. "Why did you do it?"

Eliza Bahn

Thu 12:04AM EST
"I didn't want this to come between us... I was hoping it wouldn't." A sigh as she lifts a hand to rub at her eyes.

"I probably should of thought of that at the time, but... I don't think either of were really thinking, were we?" It sounded like a rhetorical question, but who knows in a situation like this. A faintly sad smile turns the corners of her lips.

She drops her hand from her eyes and clenches her hands into loose fists at her side before relaxing them again. She reaches out a hand. Pauses, hand in the air. Pulls the gesture back... silence... finally, even though body contact is something he seemed to loathe, it was something that she needed in her sightless world. She touched just his arm, barely a weight against it.

"I want us to be friends, Decker. Regardless of what happened: Your alpha came, you came. It's... past now. As for... well... that... that can be just put down to... post traumatic reaction?"

Dire

Thu 12:05AM EST
*he nods* Why were you inside when this happened? when bad things happen I don't trust in the buildings of men. What DID happen? I just heard business was taken care of. Now.. that might ber an ok Modi answer but my Skalds heart akes for more details.

Zoe Saldana

Thu 12:07AM EST
"Do what?"
. . . Quiet. Easily ignored to answer the Skald should he chose to. She would understand, might even be expecting it. Really hard to say when the eyes look away and the face goes blank. . .

Carmen

Thu 12:12AM EST
She's been working hard. Since she got the stuffs she needed from miss mae and mis'liza and she snucked back to their house and worked and worked and when her Dire'd come in and checked on her? she 'tended to be asleep.
then she felled asleep.
she didn't mean too!
But now she's awake 'gain and been working again and now she's just bouts finished. She carefully hides it where she don't thinks he'll look, before she puts her boots on and her coat and grabs teddy (and her lipsticks is still in her pockets) and heads outside to find him, little steps racing towards mis'liza's house.

Noah

Thu 12:15AM EST
"You will have to forgive me, Dire, but another time. I'm not much of mood to go into recanting the story right now" he says dryly.. His heavy frame arcs forward as he leans more heavily on his arms. The emotional, mental, and physical drainage weighed heavily upon him after the fiasco. He didn't come back to New Jersey to start wars with other tribes. He just came out here to escape the recent memories of the past. Find a new home and a new life..

Dire

Thu 12:17AM EST
*He raises his brows and nods. Stories sucked when forced out of other people. He sniffs the air again and nods. A soft smile. His strangly melodic voice calls out* PUP?

~Scrawny Lithe Jackel~

Thu 12:17AM EST
Slowly the black silhoutte of the lithe jackel climbs over the small hill and down once more into the cluster of cabins. Ears high and tacked...

Decker Rohl

Thu 12:19AM EST
Decker looks at her hand on his arm.
Decker looks at her.
Decker draws away - gently enough. There's that, at least.

"Whoever it is you seem to think I am," he says, "I pro'lly ain't him."

After another silence, there's the sound of him zipping his coat up to his chin, and an exhale. "C'mon. Walk you back."

Noah

Thu 12:20AM EST
He was still sitting on the porch, next to Zoe. A throbbing ache assaulting his temples. He unfolds his fingers and brings up his hands to cup the sides of his head. Pressing index and middle fingers to his temples and rubs at them. His head bowed down, as his chin almost touches his chest.

"Why did you do it, Zoe."

Carmen

Thu 12:21AM EST
"DIIIIIRE!" She squeels and runs around the house (sure -she coulda gone through da holes but dats rude!) to follow his voice cuz he's at mis'liza's! and she's not seen'd him forEVah it feels like (so its only been a few hours..) and soon little legs propell her around the corner and her smile is blindingly happy as she opens her arms and runs up the stairs and launches herself at him cuz she knows he'll catch her "HIYA!"

Zoe Saldana

Thu 12:23AM EST
. . . Nothing forthcoming, and she wasn't sure she could speak of it in front of Dire, but it wasn't as if she cared much what others thought. They had their opinions anyways. Too forward maybe, from a Tribe of deserters its been said, too aloof. . . a lot has been said, implied and thought. . and she is still just here. Oh well, I guess . . .
"Back you? Care? Still care? Or make you tea? I am a lot of things Noah, but not psychic. . . she hurt you. You're still hurting. I can feel it, deep inside, all the way to my skin."
. . . it hit her in her own pain, the part she shared out not at all. Of course a lot of what was said casually did. Who knew what did it, when she never showed herself, beyond the soft hearted, quiet woman that drifted in the wind. . .

Eliza Bahn

Thu 12:24AM EST
She pulls her hand back and then wraps her arms around herself, turning back in the direction that they came and tries to carefully pick her way forward, unsure of the way. She didn't know this area well outside of her own home. Everything was new and she had no mental layout, even if it was, just a road and the area surrounding.

"Is being someone's friend that hard for you, Decker?"

Quietly spoken as she brushes a curl out hair away from her face.

Dire

Thu 12:24AM EST
*he reaches down and catches her and lifts her easily to sit in the crook of his arm. he smiles to her and kisses her cheek messily* Now you got the cooties. * he nods sagly. Hearing of Noah's hurt he looks over to see where the hurt might be*

Carmen

Thu 12:27AM EST
She laughs delightedly as she's swung up into his arms and she hugs him tight tight tight "I missed you!" She wrinkles her nose at the kiss giggling and returning the favor "now you does too!" and with a smile she looks over at Zoe and Noah and back to Zoe agin "hi miss zoe!"

~Scrawny Lithe Jackel~

Thu 12:28AM EST
There was no mistaken him for wolf. No possible way at all. Though larger, hulker than most his natural looking breathren..he was still smaller, more lithe, more fragile looking than a wolf. His jet midnight black coat rang pure...inviting even the most staunch to caress its luster. Ears abnormally large for that of even a dog...It was..he was...like a mythic beast..reminescent of Egyptain believes. So different than what many here maybe accustomed. He was indeed beautiful and suspiciously menacing to behold. The oddist quirk where those inky pools he had for eyes. Like gaint black stones..no color..no glint or reflection from light. Just black, cold and dense.

His padding was quicker in pace than even a normal gate of a wolf. Speed was this things main ability. Quickly down the chirt path towards the ruined hovel it approached.

Decker Rohl

Thu 12:31AM EST
There's no answer for a while. Halfway back, though, he grows aware of her uncertainty and lays a hand on her elbow, guiding her steps. Doesn't point out any potholes or pebbles, but he does steer her away from them.

He walks her back to her house. Back to her tribesman. And there he lets her go.

"Yeah. Guess it is." A shrug as he turns to go. " 'Night, Eliza."

Dire

Thu 12:34AM EST
*he smiles to Carmen and nods as Decker walks up* Rhya. * he secretly tickels Carmen though*

Eliza Bahn

Thu 12:35AM EST
"Goodnight, Decker."

She turns to listen to his footsteps receeding, even if she couldn't see the exit.

Zoe Saldana

Thu 12:35AM EST
. . . A glance up from whatever interesting thing she had been watching, there on the edge of Eliza's porch, offering Carmen a soft smile. Idly wondering how long before she was scarred beyond that innocence. . .
"Hello, Carmen."

Carmen

Thu 12:36AM EST
She SQUEELS as she's tickled and wriggles and ehr hello's e out quite breathless "hi D..eh..eh..ecker! hi m...m...m...is'liza!"

Decker Rohl

Thu 12:36AM EST
"Dire," the returned acknowledgment. "Erik says you kin come on pack turf. If you don't gitcher ass kicked by Rune 'r James, yer one of us."

That said, he walks off, drives off.