 His red-hued eyes swung back and forth steadily, watching the mouse sway in her hand like a pendulum. Tedros’ tail flicked subconsciously as he realized he hadn’t eaten yet today. But Vesper began speaking again, and so his focus left his empty stomach and met her eyes instead. It was strange for him to hear about her luperci verto. Similarly, Teddy couldn’t quite grasp being born into a one-shape body, just as much as she was struggling with the idea that she now could take on two new forms. The curiosity overwhelmed him about her transformation. He wasn’t stupid, naïve, or young. He knew how luperci worked – transmission through bodily fluids – and he assumed that, regardless of the case, the situation must have been personal. For him, it was an easy answer. His mother and father were both luperci, and so he was, too. For her, it had to be something much more. The male coyote wanted so badly to know, he wanted to know if it had to do with all of the healing wounds on her body, or perhaps a blood transfusion when Enkiel was trying to heal her. Or maybe it was something else entirely. But the six-year-old was old enough to know that it wasn’t his business. So he kept his mouth shut, regardless of his curiosity. Vesper continued to speak about wolves and prejudices. Inside, Ted was only thinking about his lovers. He didn’t understand why he was only attracted to males even after all of these years, but even more so, he didn’t understand why he was only attracted to male wolves. Sometimes he thought it had to do with their large, muscular optime forms, and how he could simply disappear into them and hide from the world in their arms. Sometimes he thought it was simply because his first lover had been pure wolf. Tedros Talik honestly had no idea. As she finished speaking, her eyes seemed to glaze over (as his were, no doubt), and the mouse squirmed and bit it’s way out of her hand. Although his hunger panged him to see the little snack get away, he hadn’t been ready to chase a field mouse in optime. Sometimes lupus was more practical. The coyote sighed, and listened to her respond to his question. He tilted his head, his eyes squinting a little, trying to understand where she was coming from. Being anxious to join a pack? This was where he belonged, with others. Even just one or two other canines, he needed the company. It was hard to believe the young female before him didn’t. “Inferni is definitely a good mix between loner and pack,” he said, turning to look at her directly. Tedros felt like a salesman, and it made him laugh in his head. Perhaps he was just fitting back in to the role he had played in Inferni before he left. The greeter. “But I think it’s great that you’re trying to understand the pack before just throwing yourself into it. I’ve seen so many temporary coyotes come in and out simply because they lack the intelligence to do as you are.” There was silence for a moment before the question, against his better judgment, fell out of his mouth. “How did you become luperci?” Quickly, he added, “You don’t have to answer that,” stealing her line from earlier. |
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