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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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Maybe the paint your mom used was more natural. Nowadays paint has all these chemicals in them.

[Unless Mebh ALSO was using something natural, and its scent is more a reflection of Trench].

You still need a full forest so it feels like home. I'm sorry. I guess staying in town would be asking a lot, and personally, there are some things here you're better off avoiding anyway.

She mixed some stuff together to make it. [Though she can't remember exactly what those things were.]

Well, I go into town sometimes to get some tasties. That's one good thing that comes out of there.

[There really isn't much else she'd want from there, though. Trench reminds her too much of the town near her forest back home, and all the bad memories associated with it.]

Not sure if you could even find the same stuff here. This place is kinda lacking when it comes to certain things from our world.

[Maybe it was certain fruits that were turned into dyes]?

You know, I can always bring you some from the ship where I work. I guess I never did tell you that I'm part time at a bakery?

Bakeries are where bread comes from, right? And they make it all the time?

[There are probably more exciting things that come from a bakery than that, but Mebh has always held bread in high esteem.]

Well sure, among a lot of things. Have you ever had cake?

[Heck, LUZ could make bread, but she couldn't do what Lysithea could, of which she was very envious]!

That stuff's like bread but sweeter, right? Do you make that too?

[Because that is absolutely worth venturing into town for, in that case.]

You darn right we do! Cakes, doughnuts, honey buns, and more! The best part is that the head is one of my friends, and she is super dedicated to her job! She makes nothing but the best stuff!

[Luz is actually pretty proud of Lysithea for a number of reasons, but her teenage brain is zeroing in on her baking skills right now]!

[So many tasties...!]

Well, now I have to have some! At least there's somethin' good in town.

[Luz would have argued that there was plenty good in town (whatever city you were in anyway) but figured that Mebh had a limited idea of what constituted as "good," and that was fair].

Say, you haven't felt too different since coming here at all, right?

[Luz wanted to make sure there was no possibility of something corrupting Mebh anytime soon].

Not really...it's harder to fall asleep here, though. Which is no fun, because I can't be a wolf if I'm not sleepin'.

[Mebh was feeling pretty low when Robyn left, but luckily she's managed to deal with that in ways that aren't too damaging.]

Oh, sorry to hear that.

[She DID remember Mebh saying you needed to be a wolf to be asleep].

What's your preferred way of sleeping anyway? Do you need pillows or...?

Pillows and blankets are nice. I can just sleep while sittin' up, though.

[It helps that Mebh would usually be sitting on her mother's lap when sleeping upright, so it wasn't that uncomfortable.]

Sitting up? Wow. I don't think even I can do that! Of course, I didn't think I could sleep all curled up canine style either, but Margot and I were pretty comfy that way.

[And that was why she sometimes DID sleep this way, curled up around Tempest. She missed that closeness].

It's good for when you need to be a wolf right away.

[Sitting up can help with leaving and returning to your body more easily, as well.]

Lyin' down is good too, though. Wolves keep each other warm while sleepin' all the time.

It can? Hmm. I didn't know that.

[Luz was still unfamiliar with how that all worked, though it certainly sounded interesting].

Yeah, I know. It's honestly pretty comforting.

If I'm sittin' up, sometimes I can fall asleep faster than normal if I try hard enough.

[Of course, Mebh doesn't always have the patience for that.]

I've got two of me wolves here, so we can get pretty cozy.

Oh, cool! I don't think I could that easily! Most of the time I need to be all curled up around something!

[It just felt the most comfortable].

See, exactly! I kinda miss that!

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