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[awooligan]

CLIFFORD NORMAN
UN: REDRIDINGHOODIE

STATUS: grade 11

ACCOLADES: n/a.

BIO: name's cliff. let me know if you'll buy cigarettes and shit for me, we can work something out.

© TESSISAMESS

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October 9th, evening France time

[hawkwardness]

[It's Tobias, the eyes in the sky. He spends an hour or two flying a day and watching the campus, he can tell when someone has mysteriously vanished.]

Where are you??

[awooligan]

[The sound knocks him out of his thousand year stare out the window, so that's good.]

I'm on a plane
do you need something?

[hawkwardness]

No. I was just wondering where you went. You're leaving?

[awooligan]

oh
no I don't think so
I'll be back soon

[hawkwardness]

Okay. Did something happen at your home?

[awooligan]

sort of
my mom saw me on tv or something
I didn't talk to anyone but I guess I wasn't careful enough to not get caught on camera anyway
she said she wants to talk about it

[hawkwardness]

[Weird. Because...]

She already knew where you were though, I thought.

[awooligan]

she knew I was away at a school
she thought it was normal
like one of those military schools that make bad kids into drones or whatever

[hawkwardness]

Gotcha. Let me know how it goes, okay?

[awooligan]

I should know soon
a couple hours maybe
any tips for if I have to start living as a wolf full time?

[hawkwardness]

That's not going to happen. If they kick you out, I know at least one person who would be fine getting you back here.

[Jail. It's always Jail.]

[awooligan]

sure
don't think anyone wants me loose on the full moon anyway, veil or no

[hawkwardness]

I don't think your mom is going to kick you out. She doesn't seem like the type.

[awooligan]

no offense dude but you've never met my mom so you don't know what type she is?

[hawkwardness]

[Ow. ...He may have deserved that.]

You did make her seem nice.

[awooligan]

she is
she's a good mom

[Tobias couldn't know for sure, but he wasn't...wrong. Both things were true.]

she didn't sign up for this though

[hawkwardness]

Well, let me know how it goes either way. You won't have to live as an animal. I'll make sure you don't.

[awooligan]

just as a monster either way

nevermind
thanks

[hawkwardness]

Not a monster to any of us.

[awooligan]

[It's a long time before Tobias gets a response -- hours go by. It's right around dawn at Daybreak, actually. Funny, that.]

guess who's going to be on a plane again soon

[hawkwardness]

[Luckily he wakes up around dawn, whether he likes it or not. He never has been good at sleeping in as a hawk.]

What does that mean? How did it go?

[awooligan]

it's a long story
I'm good though
Mom and Kevin are coming with
you'll get to play on the switch with him

[hawkwardness]

Okay, you don't have to tell me now. So long as you're good. See you then.

[awooligan]

[It's the following afternoon before Tobias gets another text.]

Kev's ready to meet his cool hawk friend if you want to swing by the common area outside my room
we stole a tv too

[hawkwardness]

[Just an average day. No new problems, only classes and flying, hunting and goofing off with others he knows...]

Sure. Be there in a minute. I'll bring the glove.

[He doesn't say how--and when he shows up, he's not visibly carrying anything?? He'll take a perch on whatever seems least shreddable...]

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