06-18-2008, 12:43 PM
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In a way, Umbra felt a great deal of satisfaction that the boy was mature enough not to have appreciated the joke too much -- or even fallen for it, although he couldn't see how any pup (wolf or freak) could have. So he would answer the boy, though... He glanced slightly at the female, and decided against proclaiming too much that he was a real wolf and they weren't.
"Like your mother did back at the borders," he began, "your kind can shift forms. Mine can't. And no," he quickly added, "I don't wish I could."
That should be alright, shouldn't it? Neutral enough to not reveal what he really thought of the freaks, while still informative. In a way, it was a shame that the boy was ruined from birth, because Umbra found himself rather liking the kid. Perhaps it was only that he recognized a little of himself in Taliesin; when Umbra was a kid, he'd hated people talking to him as though he didn't understand, and while he had no solid proof of it (yet), Taliesin seemed similar.
In a way, Umbra felt a great deal of satisfaction that the boy was mature enough not to have appreciated the joke too much -- or even fallen for it, although he couldn't see how any pup (wolf or freak) could have. So he would answer the boy, though... He glanced slightly at the female, and decided against proclaiming too much that he was a real wolf and they weren't.
"Like your mother did back at the borders," he began, "your kind can shift forms. Mine can't. And no," he quickly added, "I don't wish I could."
That should be alright, shouldn't it? Neutral enough to not reveal what he really thought of the freaks, while still informative. In a way, it was a shame that the boy was ruined from birth, because Umbra found himself rather liking the kid. Perhaps it was only that he recognized a little of himself in Taliesin; when Umbra was a kid, he'd hated people talking to him as though he didn't understand, and while he had no solid proof of it (yet), Taliesin seemed similar.