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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[righteously]

[He lets out a breath, passes a hand over his face. He... wasn't expecting to have to deal with that. Not here. And how do you contain a werewolf? He doesn't want to kill her, though the idea flits across his mind, but he dismisses it immediately. Ruby is a friend, and even if that weren't the case it's Wonderland. The dead don't stay dead.]

What're you gonna do? To keep people from getting hurt.

[childofthemoon]

[This, Ruby can do. No questions about her feelings, about her well-being, and she's oddly grateful for it. She needs someone who won't try to psycho-analyze her, she's got plenty of time with her own mind for that, after all.]

Daryl's chaining me up outside in the woods. That way, if I lose control and can't wrestle back... I'll be far away from the others. The wolf will just eat a deer or two. Rinse and repeat on nights two and three.

[Ruby looks down, then up again.]

If anyone goes outside, if I hurt anyone... I need to be put down. I can't become a killer.