Sometimes Brodie got into these moods where he just had to go somewhere unusual and chill for a while. "Be with himself" like his aunt used to call it, because she did it too sometimes. This time, and because he felt a lot safer now knowing that actual angels were here on earth, he had chosen the woods. Why? Because he hadn't been there since high school and that was a long time ago. He vowed to be careful when he smoked - because he was certainly going to do so - and brought his backpack with an mp3 player, a book he was reading, a notebook and a pen. He was really planning to spend the day, provided his allergies didn't start acting up from too much...nature. Or something.
Of course it had to be raining just when he really felt like taking this walk, but Brodie decided to bite the bullet and wear an impervious hooded jacket over his sweater, and boots instead of sneakers. It was the least he could do since he hated the hell out of umbrellas.
While he was walking Brodie hadn't put his earphones in his ears yet, and at a point he heard voices, which made him stop. Curiosity killed the cat, especially in the woods, but Brodie was rarely curious therefore this time he decided to investigate just who was having a conversation on the edge of the woods when it was pouring rain. He had seen his fair share of crazy things, evenly split between his powers and the things that had been happening lately, but nothing could quite have prepared him to find a man talking to what looked like an adolescent black bear. An actual bear. It was eating, and yet Brodie could hear its voice in his head clear as if he was in a Disney movie. Staring in disbelief at the scene before him the blond stopped in his tracks and decided to just stare, leaning against a tree and very badly hidden from the two having the conversation.
Of course in time he had to shift his weight from one leg to the other, and of course that meant he stepped carelessly on a branch, which cracked with a sound so loud it was like the whole tree had cracked instead. Oh, well done. Fuck.