Video | un: rrrRUFF

[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.]

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Video; un: lothrat

[ezra_of_lothal]

Oh, hey. That looks like stuff I've seen in the den of the Loth wolves, back home.

[mactirebeag]

What's a Loth wolf? Are they Wolfwalkers too?

[Even with people from so many different worlds here, Mebh knows very little about her own world beyond Ireland and the few places she's lived in her short life.]

[ezra_of_lothal]

Well, I'm not sure what a Wolfwalker is.

Loth wolves are really big wolves on Lothal. My homeworld. [He puts down his Omni and backs up and then gestures, about a foot over his head, so indicate how tall most of them were.]

I was told growing up they'd all died out. But then I met a pack of them. We helped each other.

[mactirebeag]

I'm a Wolfwalker. I'm a wolf when I sleep, and I'm human when I'm awake. [There's no small amount of pride in Mebh's voice as she says this.]

Me Mammy's about that big when she's a wolf. I bet one day I'll be that big, too.

[ezra_of_lothal]

[Ezra looks startled for a moment. Then just goes still and thoughtful, before he steps back closer to the camera.]

My mom and dad told me stories kinda like that when I was really little. I thought they were just stories.

But like I said, the dens had art that needed hands. And a couple of wolves talked like...humans, although they didn't change shape.

[mactirebeag]

Most people think we're just stories. There aren't a lot of us left.

[Even less so since Robyn left...but Mebh doesn't want to think about that.]

We don't change shape either. We leave our bodies when we sleep. [Though the wolves Ezra is talking about do sound different.]

[ezra_of_lothal]

Oh, that is a little different. Huh.

Where I'm from, most tend to think people with my sorts of abilities are just stories, too.

[mactirebeag]

Yeah? What can you do, then?

[Mebh has never known anyone else with magic aside from her fellow Wolfwalkers before coming here, so that's something interesting to her.]

[ezra_of_lothal]

Um, well, a few things. I can move things without touching them. Sometimes I see bit of the future.

But the thing I probably like best is I can communicate with animals. It's not....talking exactly, not usually. I can send images or feelings or intentions and pick those sorts of things up from them.

[mactirebeag]

Oh, I can do that. I talk to me wolves all the time. Other animals too, sometimes.

[Though it's really wolves that Mebh has the strongest connections with.]

Seein' the future sounds dead useful, though.

[ezra_of_lothal]

It can be. A lot of the time it's just confusing.

[mactirebeag]

What's so confusin' if you can see what's gonna happen?

[Never mind that seeing into the future is probably more complicated than Mebh assumes it is.]

[ezra_of_lothal]

Sometimes I've seen bits of things but not enough to really understand what's going on. And other times I've seen a few different ways something could go.

[mactirebeag]

What? That's not useful at all. Wish it would just tell you everythin' about what's gonna happen.

[Being as young and impetuous as she is, Mebh prefers to get straightforward answers about things.]

[ezra_of_lothal]

[He huffs a laugh.]

Well, the future's always in motion. Makes it tricky.

[mactirebeag]

I wish it wasn't. Dunno why things have to change so much.

[Mebh hasn't exactly been happy about how different things are here for her, as this world isn't exactly ideal for the kind of life she's used to. She's tried her best to adapt, but she's still a little sore about some things.]

[ezra_of_lothal]

I wish I had a good answer for that. Change can be really hard.

But isn't always bad.