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[ For context an hour or so prior to making this post, Derek gave in let his echoed howl happen, which ended up being a little bit louder than expected. Loud enough to be heard roughly halfway across the city. Give or take a few blocks.

To those further away, it would have sounded like an eerie but passable wolf howl. To those closer to the university grounds, there would have had an added ‘rumbling’ to the sound, lower in pitch and more reminiscent of a growling noise. ]

One of these days I’d like an echo that isn’t traumatic or problematic. No more strange ‘abilities’ that aren’t very useful. No more ‘visions’ of dying or killing someone. Something simple and unimportant for once. Or at least something with instructions.

We can all just agree that the ‘mysterious’ sound was a wild animal, right? And move on without acknowledging it further than that.

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[And finally, a reason for these werewolves to talk to each other :3 Because Lyall totally heard that. Super-hearing and all, okay okay, and now he is extremely curious.]

I'm sorry, but I don't really believe there are wolves in Locke City who aren't of the network variety, certainly not any that sound like *that*.

Will you answer if I ask what exactly happened?

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[ It's been a long time coming. ]

We could pass it off as a mutated creature running around then.

There's nothing really to tell. I had the urge to howl, so I did. And it came out like that.

[Indeed it has. He's only even met one other werewolf so far!]

Ah, well, to someone *else* perhaps, not one of us.

I ought to introduce myself. My name is Randall Lyall, I'm the biology teacher at Locke High, and I seem to have become a werewolf. I have yet to make a sound like that, though, I admit.

[ Slowly they'll eventually all come together. Or run into each other at any rate. ]

Unfortunately. I'll never hear the end of this.

Derek Hale, I teach folklore and mythology at the university. I'm not sure whether to call that comforting or not. It could mean that i'm going to turn into a miscellaneous dog beast, at least a werewolf would have been vaguely familiar territory.

So far the only other werewolf I've met has been fairly different from myself. I believe there are quite a variety of types from whatever worlds these people have come from.

["These people" being the people they're turning into. Lyall still doesn't believe that this "other fellow" is actually him in another life. He's trying very hard not to believe it.]

It may be prudent to keep an eye on yourself at the next full moon, just in case. I and the other become quite dangerous.

Different types of werewolves? I suppose that's one way to account for inconsistencies.

I've only just started howling, I doubt i'm suddenly going to go on a killing rampage during the next full moon. But sure, i'll keep an eye on it.

Better to be safe than to risk someone getting hurt. I was lucky that the first time I changed (with no notice or warning ahead of time) I was too weak to actually get out, and only destroyed my couch and a side table.

[Yes, he's a worry-wort, but he's also experienced this from the inside, so... he does have some reason to be one, this time.]

I can understand the precaution, but that was with you. One howl doesn't automatically mean 'werewolf', I might turn into a mutant chihuahua for all anyone knows.

[ Disregarding the fact that he's seen a memory of him killing his own uncle. ]

[Wince. Yeah, he knows he's being a bit excitable.]

You're right, I'm sorry. The idea of having others going through something similar has me jumping ahead a bit, I admit.

Like I said, I can understand the advice. And if I do end up turning into a werewolf, i'll probably appreciate it.

I would have thought that you'd be hoping for less werewolves though. Safer for the general public if there's only a few to keep an eye on.

It's more that I want to help. I believe it started with me before most others, as I've been part of this network from the start, so I've the most experience with it.

Though yes, fewer is probably better, in general. We can cause quite a bit of damage if we're left out.

Damage? As in property damage?

So far. I and the other I've met managed to destroy most of my furniture Sunday night, when we got out of our respective cages and had a go at each other.

Attacking each other is still better than a killing spree on the general population.

Oh, I agree, there. My house doesn't. And I still have bite marks here and there. Apparently so far, the only thing that heals up quickly is broken bones, not broken *skin*.

Are you sure it's a selective healing thing and not something to do with the biting in general? Maybe werewolf bites just have a tendency to stick around for long.

It's possible, but I am still rather bruised, as well. Not as badly as I could be (I am hypothesizing that my undead blood is not as prone to clotting into bruises as normal blood would be) but those are not healing with the speed of the bones, either.

Back up a little. 'Undead blood'?

Not something I'm expecting others like myself to have to deal with. The other werewolf doesn't seem to. But yes, my blood appears to be the equivalent of two or three days dead. My body temperature is a bit lower than normal, as well.

Lower temperature makes sense if your blood is a little 'undead'. Does raise the question of how you're alive and well though.

Which begs the question, why is any of this possible? Having dead blood is hardly stranger than turning into a wild and angry wolf once a month. I've stopped trying to work out the how-is-it-possibles, by now.

When you put it that way, I guess it makes

Well it doesn't make sense but I suppose it's an acceptable answer.

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