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[mactirebeag]

[The feed turns on to show...a wolf. At first the wolf's yellow eyes take up the screen, and then its nose as it loudly sniffs at the camera until a young girl's voice with a strong Irish brogue addresses it offscreen.]

What are you doin' over there? I need help with this part!

[The wolf turns around to join whatever's going on, revealing that this is in Mebh's room at the Waystation. And it's an absolute mess; Mebh is currently in the process of painting various things on the walls with paint that she probably stole got from somewhere in town. She's painted it with numerous kinds of shapes and symbols; spirals, circles, arrows, simple depictions of wolves and people. What seem to be most common, though, are wolf pawprints overlapping with human handprints. The wolf Mebh called over dips one of its paws in a jar of paint, and Mebh guides the wolf's paw to the middle of a painting of a large circle of wolves, where the pawprints overlap with her own handprints that she added earlier.]

There! Sin é, that's it. It's startin' to look more like the den now.

[Seemingly satisfied, Mebh goes to another part of the wall where she's in the process of painting something else; it's meant to look like this, though Mebh's artistic ability doesn't quite match her vision so it looks a good deal cruder.

Will Mebh get in trouble with the Dog Keeper for painting on the walls of her room without asking? Probably. But at least she's preoccupying herself instead of dwelling on what she's lost. If she's going to stay in a room instead of the woods, she can at least make it look more like home.]

Comments

[foulhussy]

Hah, not a bad idea! Just surprise her with it.

[ Kainé has spent many years living in the broken down remains of a shack, just a tiny lean-to really. Sleeping on a hard crate, when she wasn't just camping outside. She's glad to be living in a house now. ]

[mactirebeag]

Yeah! Maybe she'll like it.

[Of course, Mebh generally doesn't consider the consequences of doing things until after she's done them. And she'd likely still paint on the walls anyway even after being told not to, since her mother is the only authority figure she's ever been willing to listen to.]

[foulhussy]

I ain't as good at it as you, though.

[ Kainé never had never really had the chance to do it before, and she's not sure there's much point in starting. ]

[mactirebeag]

How do you know? Have you painted anythin' before?

[Mebh is generally of the opinion that she's good at most things she tries as long as she tries them. She very rarely admits that she can't do something.]

[foulhussy]

Not exactly.

[ She's too dirty to make beautiful things. ]

[mactirebeag]

What do you mean? Either you have or you haven't, right?

[Mebh herself isn't terribly concerned whether or not her paintings can be considered beautiful. To her, they're simply symbols of who she and her people are.]

[foulhussy]

Just some scribbles when I was a kid. Nothing special.

[mactirebeag]

Well, you can just put your handprints on the walls, then. Anybody can do that.

[To demonstrate, Mebh sticks one of her already paint-covered hands in some more paint and slaps it on the wall near her.] See?

[foulhussy]

[ She smiles, finding the innocent joy a pleasant reprieve from everything that seems to be happening in her life. ]

Heh, guess I'll have to ask her.