Half Past Midnight

Who: Kai and Tayne
Where: The main hall, at least to start
When: Anesus 6, late morning

Another day of rain! Another day unsuited for hunting. It was enough to make any Lykos be sullen and complain about the lack of decent hunting weather, though at least Kai was sure that such a storm couldn’t continue for long. The brindled Lykos couldn’t much complain about it anyway, though, since the rain had at last brought her (or sent her to) a cozy sleepmate and she no longer had to be alone at night. It was hard to complain when she now had that.

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Who: Kai and Churat
When: Anesus 5, late morning
Where: Basement lounge

Nobody had told Kai the compound courtyard was going to be locked. Why would it be locked? The sun was up (even if it was lost behind the stormclouds) and the few Lenhakriron clan of the compound were back in their rational minds, so why did it need to be locked? Well, Kai didn’t know, but it was. She’d found that out first hand. After sleeping late in comfort and company for the first time since she’d arrived, Kai had attempted to follow her usual routine once she was finally up and about: she tried to go out to hunt breakfast.

After skirting the herds of livestock taking shelter in the courtyard, however, she’d discovered that that was as far as she would be getting. The courtyard gates were soundly shut and there would be no getting out for her. Oh, she’d tried, sort of, but in the end all she’d managed to achieve was getting soaked all the way through her fur and matted up to her heels in mud. As she’d slogged her way back to the compound doors, she’d also noted the gardens—on which a good portion of her day yesterday had been spent with her gardening chores—looking rather drowned, which was annoying.

Who: Kai and Marcus
When: Anesus 5, late night/early morning after 12:30 AM
Where: Marcus’s Room

Though it couldn’t be said that Kai was starting to lose faith in her surroundings, she was really starting to feel quite lonely. Though she’d met many of the compounds other inhabitants and was slowly starting to sort out the myriad scents all over the place, including those that told her there were several Lykos packs around, she was still looking for a place where she could fit and stay for more than just a passing conversation. Oh, she knew she’d have one eventually, of course she would…but she was really starting to have that nagging complaint that she wanted a place now. If she hadn’t known things would work out eventually, she might have wished she was male—then she could make a place and form a pack all her own. But as it was, she just had to keep drifting for now.

Who: Desdemona and Kai
When: Anesus 4, 12:45 AM
Where: First Floor Stairwell

When the holes remained all over the walls, Desdemona assumed that the test remained, not that another had appeared. She'd been sitting in the Main Hall with a few other of her kind, then breathed a small sigh of relief when nothing seemed to change. Having risen from her chair, she started back to her room, thinking she might change into something a bit more comfortable before heading out for the night. Her mind wandered, wondering what she might chase, or if she would just play in the darkness alone. It was a silly thing to dedicate her thoughts to, and she felt even more foolish when she tripped, thinking she should watch where she was going right before she understood the situation in full.

Who: Kai and Cathryn
When: Anesus 3, early morning
Where: Basement lounge

Holes in the walls! How curious was that? Already a mostly-nocturnal creature to begin with, Kai had still been awake when the inner walls of the compound had suddenly become lacking. The development had then, of course, warranted investigation.

First she stuck her head through the holes adjoining her own room, but her neighbors were not in attendance—and lucky for them, there was nothing intriguing within reach to be accidentally acquired or borrowed, either. Then, human-formed and with her door carefully locked (trusting in the “door magic” of her key to keep people out of her room despite the holes, as Marcus had told her it would) she went exploring the halls and sticking her nose into all the windows she found out there as well.

Who: Tayne and OPEN TO ALL
Where: Anesus 2, The main hall
When: Shortly after sunset

Though Tayne had been early, other people had been earlier still. There had been a small variety of people already in the great hall-- including a few "repeats"; he recognized poor Kierban, shooting him a little wave, though he didn't expect to get one back, and the sight of Remy already waiting made him want to groan, though he didn't. That Vrykola had made trouble for Torehl the whole year previous, and he had a feeling the spoiled brat was going to cause him no end of trouble, as well.