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Jason Schuyler (pomme_de_sang) wrote in whoville,
@ 2009-07-07 15:24:00

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bornaslave, pomme_de_sang

Lucian
Jason was used to the various scents in New New York by now. The cats still sometimes made his nose itch because it was just the WRONG cat scent, so far as he was concerned, but he didn't notice it any more.

So when he came across a new scent, it made him pause, trying to figure out what it was that caught his attention. He thought it might be a were. Maybe.

Glancing up at the sky, Jason started following the scent, doing his best to come up from downwind of the new person. That way, if it seemed more than he could handle, he might be able to get a headstart and run before there was trouble. At the end of the day, though, he couldn't control the wind, which shifted just as he caught sight of the new arrival. So he pulled himself up to his rather unimpressive full height and started forward. No reason to hide now.

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	pomme_de_sang 2009-07-13 11:43 am UTC (link)
	"One that's keeping you alive," Jason pointed out. "Unless you'd really rather be dead." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bornaslave 2009-07-13 11:48 am UTC (link)
	"I'd really rather be dead," Lucian answered. Too bad suicide was really not in his nature. "...can we die here?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pomme_de_sang 2009-07-13 11:54 am UTC (link)
	Jason shrugged. "I don't know. I've never tried. We can get hurt, sure, but I'm not sure about dying. I'd rather not find out." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bornaslave 2009-07-13 11:59 am UTC (link)
	"Hmm," Lucian answered non-committally, thinking it over. "Are all the people here from other times and places?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pomme_de_sang 2009-07-13 12:05 pm UTC (link)
	"Not everybody. There are natives to this place, both human and...hybrid, I suppose. The cat people," he clarified, nodding toward New New York. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bornaslave 2009-07-13 12:09 pm UTC (link)
	"They're puzzling," Lucian nodded. He had seen them earlier, and watched them with much perplexity. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pomme_de_sang 2009-07-13 12:38 pm UTC (link)
	"They make my nose itch, but I'm pretty used to them now. Mostly." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bornaslave 2009-07-13 12:40 pm UTC (link)
	"They're wrong," Lucian answered. "Then again, this whole place is." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pomme_de_sang 2009-07-13 04:45 pm UTC (link)
	"They don't smell like wereleopards, that's for sure." Which were about the only cats Jason was around on a regular basis. "You learn to filter it out." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bornaslave 2009-07-13 04:47 pm UTC (link)
	"I'd probably find that wereleopards smell just as wrong," Lucian pointed out. "Do they have anything to say about this place? The natives." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pomme_de_sang 2009-07-13 08:27 pm UTC (link)
	Jason shook his head. "Not that I've heard. I mean, they'll talk about it readily enough, but nothing more than you normally hear from the natives talking to tourists anywhere." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bornaslave 2009-07-15 08:30 am UTC (link)
	"They won't say a word about how we can't get out of the city," Lucian inferred. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pomme_de_sang 2009-07-15 10:44 am UTC (link)
	"It's entirely possible they don't know," Jason pointed out. "I mean, for them it's normal. They might not even think about it." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bornaslave 2009-07-15 11:44 am UTC (link)
	Lucian nodded thoughtfully. "Have you tried making them question it?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pomme_de_sang 2009-07-15 01:14 pm UTC (link)
	Jason grimaced and shook his head. "No. I mean, we don't know what keeps this place together. Try poking too many holes in it and who knows what might happen?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bornaslave 2009-07-15 01:22 pm UTC (link)
	Lucian didn't say anything about it, but he didn't mind taking risks. He wanted to know what might happen. And he changed the topic altogether. "What you said, earlier. It takes you several hours to be able to change back?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pomme_de_sang 2009-07-15 01:51 pm UTC (link)
	It was a weakness that he probably shouldn't have let be known, but it was sort of in interest of knowing more about Lucian as well. Jason shook his head. "I'm not a very powerful were. I need to stay shifted for a couple of hours or else I'll crash the hell out when I shift back to human. Closer to a low-grade coma than anything else." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bornaslave 2009-07-15 01:55 pm UTC (link)
	Lucian's eyebrows raised as he listened to Jason. "Interesting. And your alpha can force you to shift?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pomme_de_sang 2009-07-15 02:01 pm UTC (link)
	"It's a fairly rare gift, but Richard has it," Jason agreed. "He's not the kind to use it except in emergency, though. If an injury is bad enough that we don't have the focus or control to be able to change, Richard could call the wolf forward and force it. And since we heal when we change, it's a good thing." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bornaslave 2009-07-15 02:03 pm UTC (link)
	"Can anything hurt you, in your human form?" Lucian asked. If they weren't immortal, after all, it would make sense, although it seemed like such a foreign concept. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pomme_de_sang 2009-07-15 02:07 pm UTC (link)
	He grinned a bit. "Oh yeah. We get hurt just like any other human. Pretty much anything will heal, as long as we have the time and isn't made by silver. And even those will heal as long as it wouldn't be considered a mortal wound. Just slower." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bornaslave 2009-07-15 02:14 pm UTC (link)
	"But you die of old age." Very, very odd. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pomme_de_sang 2009-07-15 02:18 pm UTC (link)
	"Eventually," he agreed. "If we're lucky." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bornaslave 2009-07-15 02:24 pm UTC (link)
	"Indeed," Lucian nodded. He would have liked the chance to die of old age, with Sonja, rather than the options they had been given. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pomme_de_sang 2009-07-15 02:29 pm UTC (link)
	"It's getting better. Slowly. It'll happen, one day." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)