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Mebh Óg MacTíre ([personal profile] mactirebeag) wrote in [community profile] deernet2022-02-07 12:56 pm

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[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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nilheality: (Anima)

[personal profile] nilheality 2022-02-08 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[She smiles, giving her full attention and nodding.] I see. So these are the story of your people?
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[personal profile] nilheality 2022-02-09 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Huh, so less of a statement of a story but something more like letting people know of their existence? Kinda like marking territory, maybe?]

So, you live with wolves and you also aren't wolves. And this is how you and your people are. Are there times you lived with people too?
Edited (gat dang backspace ;w;) 2022-02-09 00:29 (UTC)
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[personal profile] nilheality 2022-02-09 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[That is disappointing. She thinks that is a missed opportunity. A potential bridge between species, but perhaps that is her own human bias.]

I had heard of a race like that before... shifters, I think they were called?

Naomh Padraig...? [The name meant more to Mebh than it did to Nil.]
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[personal profile] nilheality 2022-02-09 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[In fairness, Nil's people weren't as open-minded as Nil was too. The shifters back home were a nomadic people that were often treated with suspicion and contempt. Nil herself is struggling herself with her aberrant nature. But there seemed to be something so different of Mebh. Like, with a little bit of effort on both peoples that they could find common ground.]

Well, it does sound good that you see it that way. I can understand why others disagree. It's mean to have someone make the choice for you and force you to live with it.

[Something she knew all too well.]
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[personal profile] nilheality 2022-02-12 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. [Nil misunderstood. To hear Mebh speak of it, her people could freely switch between wolf and man, and Naomh Padraig made it so it only worked when they slept. The fact that the polymorph spell was the enchantment... yeah, Nil could understand why people might not like that. But Mebh seemed to be taking it in stride?]

[Nil chuckles a bit as she recalls what she had been told to go to sleep.]
I had been told that one way to go to sleep is to be active and tire yourself out.

...somehow I don't think that you would haven't tried that already. [Mebh seemed very lively.]
nilheality: (Ponder)

[personal profile] nilheality 2022-02-13 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Have you tried the coastline?

[A bit craggy, but there was plenty of open space, from what she remembered, anyway.]
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[personal profile] nilheality 2022-02-13 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[She chuckles. Ahh the impetuousness of youth that want to have everything.]

I should have guessed that you tried that too.

Well, there are other ways but, ah... I would not think they would be to your liking.
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[personal profile] nilheality 2022-02-16 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Hmn...? Ah... are you in Trenchwood?

[Mild concern.]
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[personal profile] nilheality 2022-02-17 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[She didn't know the man by either name.] The Dog Man? [Still, she's not in the Trenchwood, which was a huge relief. She had only explored it once or twice, but knew immediately it was no place for a little one like Mebh.]

I believe it, though. That place might only be good for the dead or drow.
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[personal profile] nilheality 2022-02-20 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] nilheality 2022-02-22 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] nilheality 2022-03-10 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
[It was enough to get her to laugh.]

And where might you be from?