002 | Even Bad Wolves Can Be Good | [video/action] Open

[childofthemoon]

[The camera flicks on to Ruby sitting in one of the diner booths, far to the back, almost tucket away. Those who know here will notice immediately that she has an unusually pensieve look about her. Sad almost, worried, maybe even a little resigned. Her shoulders are slumped, and she avoids looking right at the camera.

Considering how much she usually smiles, this is quite the change.

The thing is, she can feel the wolf rearing up within her, a separate entity from her entirely. She stands no chance of wrestling it under control through sheer force of will, not after 28 years and counting of not transforming, of being repressed by the curse.

Ruby shifts in her seat, nervous. Her hands clench, knuckles going white before she sighs and tries a weak smile for the camera. It's shaky, at best.]

Where I'm from, the three nights around the full moon are known as... wolf's time. That means Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night, this week.

[Ruby falters, licks her lips, looks at the camera, then slightly away again.]

Whatever happens, please, please don't leave the mansion on any of these nights. Between sunset and sunrise, just... just don't leave the building. Please. Bar the front door. Just... stay inside.

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[Private text to Daryl Dixon]

I need to talk to you, in person if possible. It's urgent. Please?

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[OOC: For details on what's to come and plotting shenanigans, please see here!]

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[childofthemoon]

[Has anyone ever told this guy he could stand to be less of a dick? Ruby's a friendly person and currently preoccupied with worrying about other things, and even then she's feeling a spark of annoyance.

She sighs.]

Listen, I can't... I can't explain the details, it's... personal. [She looks at the feed, tired, worn out, sad.] I'll be outside on those nights, and it's really important to me to be far away from people, just in case.

[appealingavarice]

You know you're probably not the biggest and baddest thing in this house, though, right? I can handle most things, and I know I'm not the only one.

[By Greed's standards, this is practically humility.

Ling, meanwhile, being much less preoccupied with asserting his own badassery, is actually paying attention to what's being implied. He'll tell Greed about it later, if it seems important.]

[childofthemoon]

[Ruby frowns.]

I never said there was a threat, or that it was me.

[Jumping to conclusions, much? She is the wolf, however, but Greed seems to not have come to that conclusion conclusion quite naturally. For someone who doesn't know her and has just been asked to stay out of the woods for personal reasons, he makes a very strangely informed jump to the heart of the matter.]

Listen, all I'm asking is for everyone to be a good neighbor and honor a request for privacy. Please, and thank you.

[She closes the feed. The conversation is just weighing on her already heavy heart.]

[appealingavarice]

[Greed stares at the suddenly-dark screen for a moment. It actually hadn't occurred to him that she might be the problem she seemed so worried about until she'd said that.

He shrugs, though, and puts it away. Maybe he'll at least give the forest a wide berth. He doesn't like fighting women, after all.]