awooligan | Daybreak

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.

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From:

kept_his_letters

A shame. I'd have liked to sneak into a rock concert.

I think Mamá could handle a few more secrets. We've all got some.

From:

awooligan

maybe I can be convinced still

[Trade that secret for another, to take its place.

...

May as well, if he's losing everything else.]

I don't have magic
I have blight

From:

kept_his_letters

[She blinks at her phone. She's so surprised by the confession she's sure she must have misread. Or maybe it's a joke. Or maybe...]

Oh.

[Think. Say something better than that.]

Well. Thank you. For trusting me.

Should I ask? Or guess? Or

I can tell you a secret too, I guess, so it's fair. Sort of. It's not as big. Though maybe it is, I don't know.

It's not hurting you, is it?

From:

awooligan

[Fuck. There it is.]

you don't owe me anything

[This was a mistake... He's made things too awkward, but he chose a time when things had been good. How was she supposed to just drop it -- him -- without making it look even worse?]

I'm a werewolf
that's what I was doing when I didn't come home that night, it was the full moon
busy being a monster

From:

kept_his_letters

Of course I owe you. You're my friend. I owe my friendship.

I know you aren't really into the real thing, but this is a digital hug. It's different. Please expect your digital hug in 3-2-1. Okay, now imagine it.

And now I have to tell you that monster is a funny word in a world like this.

I'm going to try and not ask you a lot of dumb things, even though I want to ask about your wolf self. Though I do still hope it doesn't hurt.

I don't have as big a secret. Mine is just that the Rivera family is a necromancer family, which freaks some people out, but we don't raise the dead like people think so it's really not a big deal.

We're still friends right? You're not going to tell me you're a monster and then say we can never speak again for my own safety? Because I've read books like that and they're all really dumb.

From:

awooligan

[It's early, but today is already so much. He doesn't know how to respond to things, but it doesn't matter so much because before he can even struggle to come up with something, there's something else to read. The arm not holding his phone curls tightly around his body, unintentionally acting as her proxy, and eventually, he feels like he can breathe again.]

I don't read a lot of books so I never got a dumb idea like that

[Quite the opposite, he wonders if he could ever stop being being her friend. He'd been so convinced this would push her away, be the last straw, but... God. He wishes she were here next to him.]

thanks coco

I want to ask stuff too so we could take turns?
I'm going to have a lot of time to kill

From:

kept_his_letters

[She also wishes he were here, but she'll keep herself from saying that.]

De nada, Cliff.

We can do that. Do you want to go first?

From:

awooligan

okay

[At a loss for words, he doesn't have too many questions, really, but...]

what does a necromancer that doesn't raise the dead do?

From:

kept_his_letters

Work with spirits. Blight stuff that isn't vampires or werewolves. Communion, things like that. Stuff that makes the spirits happy, I think. The name seems kind of silly to me, but it's what I was told.

Are you like a normal wolf when you change?

From:

awooligan

I bet you'd be good at making spirits happy

yeah
maybe bigger? I don't know a lot about wolves
we don't have them in Oklahoma

have you ever talked to a ghost?

From:

kept_his_letters

Thanks.

Wolves are pretty big, I've heard.

Kind of. I still haven't done any summoning, so usually I'm just talking to Mamá's spirit guide, her cat. But as far as actual ghosts, I've been there when Mamá did work for someone and I've said things then. And I talk to my dead relatives on Día de Muertos. I can't normally see or hear ghosts much though. Not without a lot of work and magic involved.

Do you think more like a wolf or more like how you normally do when you transform?

From:

awooligan

I'm just me usually
I asked Tobias something like that to see if it would help me not be such an asshole to you guys like before but we're too different
I don't really remember what I'm like for the full moon

are you going to have a spirit guide someday?

From:

kept_his_letters

Oh! So you can change even when it's not a full moon! Cool!

Anyway, you know, half the world is pretty cranky once a month. It might be good to look at it from a human angle rather than an animal one. There's bound to be something out there for keeping calm.

I don't know. I try to imagine it but, well, like I keep saying, I'm really no good at magic.

From:

awooligan

oh
yeah
I don't do it a lot

you're okay enough at magic

[gonna moonwalk always from period talk because yikes]

you didn't ask a question that time

From:

kept_his_letters

[Gosh, Cliff, are you scared?]

Throwing a rune I didn't make isn't the same thing. You haven't seen me do anything else.

Hmmm

[Can I pet your fur? No.]

Can I see your wolf form someday?

From:

awooligan

[he's a teenage cis boy? duh???]

I believe in you

[Ah... His stomach shouldn't twist so uncomfortably at the question, especially when the main issue he has with it is acknowledging that the wolf is him, and that's sort of what all this has been, huh? Yikes, though.]

okay
it's a promise, so don't go anywhere before I'm back

[That makes it okay, doesn't it? If agreeing means they have to see each other again, then of course he'd agree, even to that.]

do you know of any sleeping spells?

From:

kept_his_letters

Thank you.

And yes, it's a promise, I'll be right here.

Um... mmmaybe... why?

From:

awooligan

Tobias suggested it to fix me during "that time of the month" instead of drinking myself stupid every day
none of us were really a fan of that
it was a lot different than a couple beers with friends

From:

kept_his_letters

That is true.
I was kind of worried.
But, I'm not sure that sleeping a whole chunk of the month away will work either.
I'll try and look for something to help while you're gone.
Have you talked to any other werewolves yet?

From:

awooligan

sorry

I don’t know any others
and I don’t really want people to know

From:

kept_his_letters

[Well. That stings a little, considering he promised her before. But, she guesses he's being honest now and that's something.]

What if I asked? As if for me?
I don't really care if a bunch of people think I'm a werewolf.

From:

awooligan

[Being fair, he didn’t technically lie. He made sure to say he’d try to talk to someone — no guarantee, and no promise that that someone would be a fellow lycanthrope. Tobias totally counted...right?]

I don’t know
you don’t have to worry about it, Coco. it isn’t like it’s your problem

From:

kept_his_letters

You're my friend and I care.
And I owe you a billion.
Doesn't sound like a problem to me.

I'll look.

From:

awooligan

[He doesn't know what to say the that, even if he feels an overwhelming wave of...gratefulness? Affection? Either or both, or something in between. He misses her already.

After a few minutes, he still doesn't have words to put his feelings to or the confidence to say them anyway, but he taps out a reply.]

I wish this flight was shorter

From:

kept_his_letters

Sadly, no one's invented a magic for time yet.

[Oh the things they would all skip. Like boring lessons.]

But we can keep talking to pass the time, if you like.