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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

[mactirebeag]

You know, the Dog Man. [Mebh says that as though repeating it will make it more obvious.] He lives way out here and he's got loads of dogs. Makes the whole place smell like dog, but that's not too different from wolf.

...what's a drow?

[nilheality]

I'm sorry... I just arrived here. I don't know too many people yet.

[Ah, but she can answer that second part.] The drow is a race of elves. Traditionally, they live inside the mountains, and so are pretty capable of living off of very limited resources.

[mactirebeag]

Mountains don't sounds so great to live in. I guess you could do loads of climbin', though.

[Mebh vastly prefers living in a forest to anywhere else.]

...dunno what elves are, either. Are they like the sidhe?

[nilheality]

They aren't, really. There's not much to eat except lichens, waters, and other cave-dwelling creatures. Its a very hard environment and not all drow are the friendliest of people.

[Though she is careful not to paint too broad of an allusion.]

Elves are... the people of the wood, originally. They sprung out from the blood of their creator, Corelion, I think? It is said that long ago, the elves were the first people of the land... Ahbehr-Tayril, if I am remembering right. But, anyways, they are a long-lived people and guardians of their ancient areas. Eventually they made their own groups, some going underground, some going to the stars, some returning to the faewyld, some going to the sea, and some traveling the lands.

They are a long lived people, and slow to trust. I have met a few of them in my travels, and they are a good people, if a bit... proud.

[mactirebeag]

Sounds more like the Tuatha Dé Danann, then.

[Some of those details sound like them, at least.]

I've never seen 'em, but Mammy's told me stories. They lived where I'm from way before people did, and they live for a long time.

[nilheality]

[It was enough to get her to laugh.]

And where might you be from?