[Sodium_noir] a Company of Wolves

[Alyson Young]

Spikey wrote:
Chester, Nez, Poe, Korben
Bone Gnawer, Uktena, Raven spirit, Bone Gnawer
The Isle of Crabs

> That's what she'd do. She'd rely on the wolf to know.
> Nez looked at Korben, meeting his eyes in a challenge, listening to the 
> instinctive voice inside.

Korben was shaken out of his own musings by the dawning Awareness that 
Nez was looking at him.  Meeting her eyes, he realized that she was 
making eye contact... and he could see the Wolf in her eyes.  Here he 
was, standing there in Crinos, and she was practically calling him out.

It was almost enough to waken his Rage... but underneath Korben's Rage 
was always the bitterness... the memories that couldn't let go and allow 
him to rush into harm's way with the cocky self-assurance of the 
new-turned Garou.  His eyes show his fire, but also his awareness that 
that fire isn't always enough.

It's a knowledge that makes him at once less dominant and more 
dangerous.  Here is a Garou that just won't make a lot of rookie 
mistakes.  Here is a Garou who has enough experience to follow a good 
leader, without the need to be the leader himself.

Just then, he speaks.  "If you're looking for the job, I suggest you 
Change.  You won't take me down in that form."  But listening carefully 
as she is - watching him, as she is - Nez will see, and hear, the 
underlying plea.  Take the job.  The challenge is for form's sake; the 
eyes have already settled the reality.

[if I ever get outta here, I'm goin' to tag-mandu]