Predawn
Who: Helene, Thomas and Han (NPC) Where: The woods When: Early morning, just before dawn What: First meetings always are more fun when nakedness is involved.
The night before Helene had done something completely uncharacteristic. She called her nephew and told him she wasn't coming in the next morning. Helene Laitos was taking a personal day. Sleep had alluded her so she decided she really needed to not think. She wasn't in high school anymore; she couldn't let herself get hung up over the fact that a man didn't want to be with her. She was better than that. So Helene did the one thing she knew would make her feel better. She went for a hunt.
Leaving her house and Tigger behind, she shifted into were form for the first time in over a week. It had been too long. She was itching for it. A rabbit and two squirrels later, she was starting to feel more like herself. There was still a lot of thinking she had to do. She was reaching a point in her life when she felt alone, with few friends, completely focused on work. That wasn't a terrible thing, but she was beginning to realize that she needed to put herself out there. She needed to make friends, get a social life.
There was movement to her left and she crouched down, slinking through the brush. She sniffed the air. Was it a canine of some kind? And a human? She inclined her head for a moment. Another were? Now, she was curious.