open ♔ valentine's day

[romanticidal]

♬ Careless Whisper - George Michael

WHO || Anyone and their special someone [Closed]
WHAT || Various Valentine's Day activities
WHERE ||Anywhere
WHEN || Feb 14th, 2016
HOW || Actionspam or Prose

[ It's Valentine's Day! ( aka Singles Awareness Day )  Assume that all missions that are posted already are going out after this. ♥ ]

Comments

[animalistic]

Do you mind? [She glances to her chocolate.] I'm going to just put that in the kitchen. I could come with.

[silverguardian]

Sure. Not like I was up to anything, really.

[animalistic]

Okay. [Malia gets up and takes the picked through box of chocolate. She follows Nyna, but makes a quick stop to slide the box onto the kitchen table.]

I'm Malia. [She offers, since she realizes that she hadn't even asked her name before starting to pry for information about her home world.]

[silverguardian]

Nyna Dilant. Nice to meet you, Malia.

[animalistic]

Are you a Knight or a Squire, like me?

[silverguardian]

Still a Squire. Dying doesn't get you a promotion, it seems.

[animalistic]

Dying? [She glances to Nyna.] That definitely sounds like an obstacle to overcome.

[silverguardian]

I managed. It's been almost a year, now.

[animalistic]

[A year ago does feel like a long time ago, but Malia is also used to things in Beacon Hills where too much happens in the span of a few days.]

Do you talk about it a lot or should I not ask questions?

[silverguardian]

I can talk about it. What would you know?

[animalistic]

How did it happen? [It seems the most important question to ask.]

[silverguardian]

It was on a mission. There were these... monsters inside of a painting, where a man was being held and tortured.

[animalistic]

[Malia frowns.] Does that happen a lot? Monsters in paintings?

[silverguardian]

Not anymore, I hope.

[animalistic]

That's good. There are a lot of paintings in London.

[silverguardian]

Well, this was Switzerland. Maybe it's more common there.

[animalistic]

Oh. [She says it as if it makes perfect sense for something like that to only happen to Switzerland.]

[silverguardian]

... That was a joke.

[animalistic]

Oh. [Malia feels weird for not realizing that, but she's not exactly good at those sort of subtle things.]

Sorry. I'm still trying to figure out those sort of things. I spent most of my life as a coyote and other animals don't joke around.

[silverguardian]

Like a druid?

[animalistic]

[s q u i n t]

No, like a coyote. I'm a werecoyote and when I had my first transformation it was during an emotionally charged moment. [She says that like she's been given that as a clinical phrase. Her tone shifts to more casual as she continues.] I was a kid and I didn't want to shift back.

[silverguardian]

I've never met a werecreature that wasn't a werewolf. You were a child? Were you... bitten?

[animalistic]

Adopted. [A beat.] My biological parents are werewolves. Where I'm from, the whole transition part isn't like it is here. Or anywhere that I've read about.

There's something more internal and connected to it where you become what you are... or something to that effect. There are werewolves, werejaguars... Kanimas. A lot of different things that all originate from the same werewolf line.

And, since coyotes don't really travel in packs and since I wasn't really around other wolves, I guess when I had my first transformation, that's what happened for me.

[silverguardian]

That had to be terrifying...

[animalistic]

It wasn't as terrifying as suddenly being a teenager and being stuck in a math class that you don't understand.