Tayne Peregrine (hunterperegrine) wrote in light_of_may, @ 2009-11-19 20:00:00 |
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Entry tags: | 2009-06-22 |
Mentory Stuffs
Who: Tayne and Madock
Where: Madock's new place!
When: Morning
So apparently Tayne lived pretty close to Madock, now. He pulled up the dirt road to the little house the kid was staying at, his were-creature books on the seat next to him, and looked around. Yep, not far from his house, at all, and yet, it was a good thing he'd called Madock ahead of time, or he'd never have found the place. He killed the engine, pulled the books up and under one arm, and started over towards the front door to knock.
Then again, maybe Madock wouldn't have his charm on, and would hear him coming, so he didn't have to knock. Lucky kid, living way out here. No cars or power lines to keep him up at night....
Madock didn't have his charm on at the present moment, so he did hear Tayne walking up the walkway to his house. And the car door and the engine and a lot of other things that signaled his arrival. Either way he was pulling the door open right about the time the knock came. "Hey." Madock smiled, stepping aside to let Tayne pass and come into the house. "Excuse those last few boxes... still getting settled."
"Yeah, no problem," Tayne nodded, coming inside and looking around. "New place?" As far as Tayne knew, it was just to get away from the sounds of the city proper-- he didn't know much about Madock's home life, or lack of it, at the moment.
"Yeah." he nodded. "Wanted to get my own place and be away from my dad and not mooch off of my friends." he explained. Once Tayne was inside, he shut the door behind him. "Don't really have anywhere for you to sit..." he said, moving to his room to snag the desk chair and pulling that out. "I need to invest in a couch sometime today." he chuckled.
"Standing's fine," Tayne protested lightly. He certainly wasn't gonna be sitting if Madock was stuck standing. "So how've you been? How're you adj-- ad-- getting used to everything?" He knew the whole first week of being bitten was the hardest, while you were still trying to figure out what was going on with the smells and being overwhelmed with sounds, and all that.
"Well..." he shrugged. "I'm feeling better about things. A friend of mine is gonna help me fund my cage project, so downstairs will be where I get locked up every full moon. That was the hardest part to figure out, but now that I don't have to worry about that so much, I feel a lot better." he sighed. "The smells and sounds and stuff... that's taking some getting used to, but being out here helps a lot and then when I'm in town I can use that bracelet most of the time if I need it."
"You're doin' better than I am, then," Tayne shrugged a bit, grinning faintly. "I'm still g-going back and forth on the full moon thing. Think I got a decision, but nobody else seems to like it much." Why everyone insisted on being in the same building as a weretiger, he had no idea. "So the charm is workin' out well? I did think this was probably a good place for a new were, all out in the woods and all."
"What are your options?" he questioned, curious what Tayne might be doing for his own full moon. "I just gotta be sure that I'm not going to put anyone in any danger while I'm shifted is all, but if I get the cage in and make sure it's stable and everything, maybe I won't have to worry." he shrugged. At least he hoped that would be the case. "Yeah. The charm is pretty awesome. I want to get used to everything,b ut it's hard to do it all at once. I think if I use it a little less each time I go out then pretty soon I won't need it anymore. It really helped, a lot."
"That's how I've been doing it," Tayne nodded. "I'm mostly down to keeping the charm for emergencies and crowded rooms, or when there's really strong smells around, and it's been two weeks for me." Sometimes he was still a bit overwhelmed, but he dealt with it. Out here, though, it was really nice. He settled back against the wall by the door, crossing his arms across his chest, the books between them. "Well. I don't have a basement, and cages kind of... well, make me nervous. So I was lookin' at bigger things-- think I've settled on driving an hour or two out of town and check myself in at a police station. They're pretty much all offering jail cells to weres on the full moon night, now."
Madock smiled and nodded. "Yeah. That's what I've been doing. The diner is still a little too much for me, and work, I work at a restaurant." he explained. "So the same thing. So much and so many people and smells and sounds are just too much for me really." It was nice out in the quiet of the pack lands though and he couldn't have picked a better place to settle himself down. "I'm not too much looking forward to the cage, but I figured it would be easier. Thankfully this place had a basement or I woulda been doing the whole jail thing too." he admitted.
Yeah, Tayne could definitely understand-- since he worked at a restaurant, himself, and all. "Cages also cost money-- but you said you had somebody helpin' with that, right?" And with a boarder who paid four dollars in rent now and then, money was something he needed to keep better track of. He couldn't go buy himself cages whenever he felt like it. And if that was half of a rationalization to keep him out of a cage, well, he wasn't going to admit it.
"Yeah." he nodded. "A friend of mine... I told him about what happened and he said he'd be willing to help me. I'll pay him back whether he wants it or not, but being able to get it and pay a little at a time will definitely help me out." Madock said, leaning himself back against the wall and folding his arms across his chest. "I think I'll have to thank him a billion times a day, seriously."
Chuckling, Tayne nodded, too. "Nice to have friends who can help out like that." He used to be someone like that. Whether he still would be was still up in the air, but he really did need to start looking into some hunts that actually paid, soon. Maybe he could call up a friend to share it with, so he could have a failsafe in case he changed. For now, though, he had a kid to help out. "So I've got you some books here, if you're still interested in 'em."
"Yeah. I didn't really expect him to offer, but when he did... I couldn't really say no." he admitted. "It's a lot better option than any of the other ones I had." He grinned at Tayne when he talked about the books and nodded. "Totally." he said. "Thanks. I appreciate it. Jessalyn... she's great help, but I guess things are just a little different with born and bitten." he shrugged.
Tayne pushed up from the wall and offered him the pair of books. "These're pretty generic to start with, but I did add a lot of notes to 'em, if you can read my handwriting. The gal who bit me seemed to find 'em pretty helpful. I'm still kinda trying to work out some stuff that's useful for a new bitten, but since I'm just muddling through it myself... well, you know." He shrugged. "If you have any big breakthroughs or find anything that helps really well, let me know, all right?" He could add it to his notes, in case he ever wanted to do the book thing.
Madock nodded as he took the books from Tayne. "Totally." he said. "I'll be sure to let you know if I hear anything." he assured him. "Or learn anything. You never know these days. Help comes in the strangest of places."
"It does," Tayne agreed seriously. "You'd be amazed the places and people I've learned something useful from, not just about weres and shifting and such, but about anything. Right now that's pretty much where I'm focusing...." Even though he still had a few other things in mind-- hunting down his brother's attacker, finding and mastering a protection spell for said brother and probably his sister too, looking for that merman who had fucked up Justin... yeah. The were thing just wound up being front and center.
Madock nodded. "Exactly. There's a lot of things I never thought I'd learn from some people, but they've all been a big help to me." he admitted. "Guess we all end up knowing the people we know for a reason. I just gotta remember to keep my ears open for useful information and try not to let it filter out of my head."
"Write it down," Tayne suggested. "I know it's hard to think about it, and this is coming from a guy who got a C-average in school-- but seriously. Have something on you to write shit down when it comes to you. Then it won't go out of your head." Part of that was selfish, because he did want as many other perspectives from other bitten weres as he could get, but most of that was how much help writing things down had been for him.
Madock nodded. "Sounds like a good idea. I think I should do that with everything, not just the werewolf stuff." he muttered. "I'm not the most stable brained guy in the universe. It's like my head bounces around all over the place."
"Well, that might help that, too," Tayne grinned. "You've got a hell of a lot of things bombarding you. Smells and sounds on top of your own head. Maybe writing things down will at least organize things. Nothing wrong with being all over the place long's you don't lose it, right?" He was pretty down-to-earth, himself, so that wasn't something he really had to deal with-- not until the new senses, anyway. That was the only thing he could compare that to.
"Yeah." Madock said. "I'm just a little spacey. Distracted. Something like that. It's like all these things are going on in my brain to begin with. The were stuff kinda just piled in on top of that and now my brain is even more confused than before." he sighed.
"What'd you do before?" Tayne asked curiously. "Before the were stuff, I mean. Just kind of muddled through?" He knew the guy had been some kind of psychic, Jess had said as much when she asked after the headache thing, but he could've been any kind, even a kind that helped keep him organized and focused.
"Basically." he admitted. "Before I was a were I was a psychic." he told him. "I'd touch something or someone and see things occasionally. Like what they did for dinner or... the last date they had or what they did in the last class period." he explained. "So that didn't help to keep me not confused either. I'm lucky I remembered that people didn't know I could see those things and didn't just blurt it out."
"Well... damn." That kind of psychic. Tayne scratched his head a bit. "You should be used to being overwhelmed, then, huh?" He couldn't even imagine trying to deal with that. The senses were bad enough.
Madock nodded. "Yeah." he said. "Guess not much changed, I'm just overwhelmed in a different way now. It's smells and sounds instead of visions." he admitted. "Honestly... and maybe it sounds just a little screwed up, but this... I'd rather have this than what I had before." he admitted. "At least I'll get used to this. I don't think I'd have ever got used to the visions no matter how long I had them. They always came at the most random moments." Madock explained. "When I didn't want them especially."
"That's true," Tayne agreed sympathetically. "This, at least, I'm told will eventually be second-nature. Visions... not so much. I guess it's workin' out for you, then, huh?" He grinned a bit. Maybe it'd worked out for him, too, but he just didn't know yet. The senses and strength and healing were... well, they were useful, but he didn't know yet if they made up for the potential danger, both to himself and from himself. "Have you figured out what you are yet?" he asked, changing the subject a little. "What kind of were?"
"Yeah." he nodded, giving Tayne a grin. "A wolf." he explained. "Found out in a couple of ways. The way I smell for one and another way that really doesn't have to be given in detail. I'm sure you can figure it out. But I'm positive I'm a wolf which is what I wanted in the first place. Maybe I was stupid and didn't think it through as much as I should have, but it doesn't really matter now. I got what I wanted and eventually things will be okay. What about you? Do you know what kind you are?"
"The smell apparently gave me away to another one who's the same as me," Tayne nodded, glad the guy had gotten what he'd wanted. He had a feeling Madock and Jessalyn were mated-for-life, both of them, now. It was a bit much, he thought, for two kids their age, having that kind of overwhelming commitment-- but he supposed it was better than just one of them mated-for-life, and the other not. "A tiger." Which, hey, was better than a lot of the alternatives. He still needed that book.
Madock nodded a little. "Well, at least you know what you are." he said, giving Tayne a small smile. "Better than sitting around wondering. And a tiger is pretty cool too. Can't really change and run through the streets, but still, it's better than a lot of things I guess."
"Neither can you, bud," Tayne pointed out with a wry smile. "But that's what the packlands are for. There's a hell of a lot of wilderness around Scarlet Oak. And it's sure as hell better than a housecat or even a lion-- apparently they try to make harems." He wrinkled his nose at the very idea.
Madock chuckled. "A harem." he said, shaking his head a little. "Guess you lucked out then, dude. Lucky you."
"Hey, I've got no need for a harem, so I'm happy with the tiger thing. As happy as anybody can be, anyhow, who wasn't born with it." Happy was probably an exaggeration, but he was happier with that than anything else that might've happened. He just hoped life didn't get harder come the full. "So d'you have any... I dunno, questions or concerns or anything?" Or should he scram?
Madock smiled again and nodded. "Well good thing you got saddled with tiger instead then." he said. He couldn't imagine how awful it would be to be stuck with something that would have had him wanting a harem. He had to consider himself lucky and he knew it. "Um... I guess not." he said. "I've got the books to read, so I gotta get to that in between work and hanging out with Jessalyn. The writing stuff down is going to help so I gotta get myself a notebook or something to carry with me. I think everything else is going to be learn as I go. Unless you got any more advice for me."
"A'ight." Tayne pushed up from the wall again. "Not really." He felt like a shitty sort of mentor, if that's actually what he was, but at least the guy seemed to be doing all right. "So I guess I oughta leave you to it. Call me up if you've got any questions on those books, or whatever, a'ight?"
"Sure." he nodded, shifting the books into his left hand so he could offer the other out to Tayne. "Thanks a lot." he told him. "For helping me. I know you don't have to and I do appreciate it."
Tayne took the offered hand and shook. "Hey, us newly-bitten don't have anyone else, sometimes. I just wanna do what I can. Besides." He grinned. "You're with Jess, and she's a sweetheart, so I'd probably do what I could, anyhow." He wanted Jessalyn to stay happy, after all.
Madock smiled at that and nodded. "She is." he agreed. "She's lucky to have a friend like you." And now he was just as lucky. Things as a werewolf were looking a little better to him now. If he could just keep on this track, he'd be doing well.