nick_garou | (no subject)

Sunday, April 1, was an interesting day. I went to the park to check on things and ended up meeting Silvertip, aka Ciuraq, aka The Big Dog of the Woods. He was in the park with Val (who was playing at being a raven), and.... Long story short, it went well. He thinks I'm Walker kinfolk. He doesn't speak much English--a little. He does speak Yup'ik--an Alaskan Inuit language which--thanks Chimera--I can now understand and speak. I made sure to throttle back on my fluency, claiming I'd picked the language up at college in a class. I made myself useful, even. He was looking for Thomas and I had his number and was able to ring him up. Ciuraq looked pleased at how easy it'd been to track his "kinfolk" down. Then Val keyed me in that she'd told Ciuraq about Thomas' magic coat and how he'd probably use a gift to examine the magic--which might bleed over and detect me. So I bugged out and Val came with me--riding on my shoulder. I didn't feel any magic probing at me, so I think we got away in time. I'm relatively sure I might have been able to have created a "dead space" around me with a Correspondence and Prime bubble, but.... Better safe than sorry. Plus I'd managed to screw up trying to use some Mind magic to spook a crow away from Val earlier--and it ended up attacking her. Oops.

On the car ride back to Val's place, she told me that the young garou girl who'd been killing those families in town was one of the locals and packed with Ciuraq, who said he'd put a stop to it. Talk about fucked up. It's a good reminder for me as to how violent some of the garou can be.

I wonder if maybe I could convince Salem to let me poke about in his head a bit--to get a feel for the anger they have and better understand what it might be like to be a werewolf? Gwyneth might have..... done something similar long ago. Of course, she might have done that as foreplay. :/

Wed, April 4th, I ran into Thomas in the park. He was wandering around the fountain and looking at it. Clearly up to something, but I didn't want to use any magic in the event he might detect it. So I just pushed onwards and said hey. We talked a bit, mostly about his having met Ciuraq. The Big Dog didn't kill Thomas, so I guess that means they think he's okay. Maybe Ciuraq even knows that Thomas is the new werefox in town? Maybe not. Not my tribe: Not my problem. Thomas was a bit miffed about Val, and I tried to point out that he showed up just as we were wrapping up dealing with a shapeshifting fomor and a pack of BSDs--so naturally we're on high alert. I think he understands where Val is coming from, but still feels irritated at nearly being exposed. Honestly? I understand so very well as to where he's coming from.

Insane case load this week. Haven't had a chance to get back to the cops yet. Did get a chance to watch the first episode of the UK version of "Being Human" (which is about a vampire, ghost, and werewolf who all live together). At one point, the werewolf is yelling at the vampire for having killed someone and said something to the effect of "If we can't act human, what's the point in trying?" It gave me real pause. Humans are dangerous and impede the flow of magick. How easy might it be for me to simply pull up stakes and disappear completely? To throw away my jobs? Everything. Just live on the streets or in the woods--homeless and anonymous. A hermit. I could probably do it fairly easily. But.... I'm not there yet. And maybe I shouldn't get there ever. That way leads to a tower out in the woods and a life as a hermit/recluse, I think.