[Video+Action, post moon-warp]

[wereperrito]

Hello all!

This is Jack, from my little nook in the convoy where I make and repair clothes.

[He smiles at the camera, showing off the fluffy little fox ears he is now sporting instead of regular ears, and the white streaks in his blue-gray hair, then turns his radio device around to show the little shop. It is, frankly, less like a shop and more like a workspace, with fabric in cabinets on the walls and a pair of tables and some chairs, with more fabric strewn across them, some in good condition and some in less-good condition.]

I just wanted all of our new people to know that if the moon warp ruined your clothes, I can probably help. I have mostly figured out trousers, I think, and I am still working on proper shirts, though I can make, um, cloaks and drapes and things.

[He sets the camera down on one of the tables, and sits down to face it.]

I did want to, er, also tell everyone something else. I know we are all... changing. Into something we might call monsters, some of us. I just wanted to say I was a monster before I came here. Not a-- not a bad person, no, not a cruel person, but a werewolf. I turn into a beast once a month on the full moon, like moon warps here.

So. So I just wanted everyone to know, I have done this before. This changing, this becoming something else for a time. I don't know if it will help anyone, but if it can-- I wanted everyone to know.

[He has "come out" piecemeal to various people, here and there, and it's gone well. But now he's doing it to everyone, to people he's never talked to. It's a little scary, but he's doing it.

And now that he's done it, he hesitates, then fumbles for the radio to turn it off without further comment.

He will be available in his shop most evenings, for people to come by to get clothing repaired or measured for, or for people to ask questions, and of course he's around the convoy or in his van during the day when they're on the move.]

Comments

[bufudine]

Serph's gaze slides away. His silence to the question is answer enough.

"...I didn't know what to say."

John had been... the word brooding comes to mind. That same sort of distant silence and separation that he had seen from Heat after he and the rest of the Tribe had returned from blowing up that cruise ship. Serph had decided to leave John be.

Maybe he shouldn't have?

[wereperrito]

"Well, it's hard sometimes even for people who know what desire is, and have experienced it before," Jack comments, a little wryly. He pats Serph's hand lightly, and suggests, "But you could maybe start with 'did you like that' and 'do you want to do it again or not'. It might be easiest for both of you to just be up front."

[bufudine]

Serph blinks slowly.

Again?

A repeat never occurred to him, especially when it had been the result of them fighting and ultimately lead to the wolf running free. He has a furrowed brow, the sort of pinched expression he sometimes gets when he feels like he's missing something that would allow him to follow the train of thought.

Carefully, he asks, "Aren't we trying to avoid a repeat? So the wolf doesn't get loosed again?"

[wereperrito]

Jack blinks, back, and then laughs a little. "Not the moon warp part, Serph. The sex part. I would very much prefer that you not get distracted during the moon warp again, no, but if you and John want to have sex again, in whatever form that happens, I'm sure that could be arranged."

[bufudine]

Serph's perplexed frown remains pasted on his face as his confusion only deepens. He's not sure why Jack thinks he (and John??) want to have sex again. That was just the result of the moon warp and the confusing whirl of impulses from almost dying from John drowning him and his demon's renewed hunger upon being brought back from the brink by John, wasn't it?

...Wasn't it?

Maybe he should ask John. Even if he's not human, maybe he'd have some idea of why Jack thinks that. Or what Jack means by in whatever form that happens.

"There's nothing to arrange." He's sure of it. His rests his other hand on top of Jack's. "We won't be distracted again."

Now that he has some idea of the cause, then it's a simple matter of taking precautions. It's just like when he first gained his demon. He'd been taken off guard by the roaring hunger, but the next time he maintained control.

[wereperrito]

"Okay," Jack says, and he's willing to leave it be for now. He's pushed the poor fellow enough for one day.

Instead, he gives Serph's hand a little squeeze, then lets go and stands up. "Well, as long as you're here, I can give you your new shirts. I finished them yesterday, but hadn't gotten around to getting them to you."

[bufudine]

Serph blinks in surprise. He had no idea Jack was making him new clothes. His expression softens as he likewise stands, nodding in appreciation while Jack goes to get the shirts.

He feels... better, after talking to Jack.

Still a little concerned about falling into old patterns, but no longer having the lingering sense of dread he'd felt since the moon warp. (And perhaps a little more confused thanks to the new knowledge Jack has imparted on him...)

[ooc: And that seems like a good stopping point :> ]