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[pokebonnet]

Who: Ivy and Lyall, Elian, Helene and Kara respectively
When: Multiple days over the end of December and beginning of January
Where: Expresso Yourself, later accidentally in the Dead District
What: Ivy meets other Numbers Club members face to face--mostly on purpose. (Sub-threads in the comments)

It's taken some help from Artie, but Ivy thinks she's starting to understand Locke City geography (or is it geology?) well enough to start going places on her own, without needing her little grandson--which is how she still thinks of him, no matter how big he's gotten--to give her a ride in his schoolbus.

Which is good. She does love him, but she'd feel a bit awkward if he sat in on her meeting with other Numbers Club members.

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[professorwolf]

"Well." Lyall feels a little awkward saying it, especially given it could easily come across as rude, but she did ask. "The Ivy the 'other fellow' seemed to be expecting was quite a bit younger. Ivy Tunstell, nee Hisselpenny. Apparently he definitely knew her first name, and possibly knew her before she married, to bother with the maiden name."

[pokebonnet]

"Oh," Ivy says, blushing a little. "How strange." And then a pulse hits her, just a little one, and she blinks at Lyall. "That is her name, though! I mean, I didn't know it until you said it but now I do! Do you... I mean, if your Professor knew the other me's first name, do you think... oh, this is so embarassing! Do you think maybe he was sweet on her? Or-- or maybe he was her teacher!" She thinks she likes that guess better, not that Mr Lyall isn't a nice young man, but he's a werewolf. "That would explain how he'd know her first name but that she'd just think of him as a professor. And why he'd think of her as a younger woman."

[professorwolf]

Lyall thinks over everything he's gotten regarding her-- and other things, as well-- and finally shakes his head. "No, I don't believe he has any feelings for her like that...." His mind, in fact, goes back to that name he got at the very beginning: Sandy. If anyone he's "remembered" so far was to be the other fellow's love, that person would probably be it. He just has no idea who said person is. "A teacher is much more likely."

That makes him smile. "I'd like to think he's a teacher... then we might actually have something in common."

[pokebonnet]

She smiles back at him. "Do you think he taught Puff Bonnet about werewolves? What if we just try to tell each other everything we remember so far, even little things, and see if it reminds the other of things? I'll start."

She takes a sip of her coffee before proceeding. "Mrs Ivy Tunstell was inducted into the secret society called the Parasol Protectorate by a lady whose code name was Ruffled Parasol. I don't remember her real name but I saw her in my memory and she looked dark--white, but dark?--I think she must have been pregnant?

"I've seen her in another memory, this one where she and a very... large man are testing out a special parasol and they fall off a ship. It's a different parasol than the one in the first memory, but I think they work the same? Anyhow, she gave Ivy Tunstell the code name Puff Bonnet and said she'd make a special bonnet for her like the special parasol. The other Ivy traveled by dirigible to visit werewolves in Scotland twice. Do you know about any werewolves in Scotland? Tinted goggles are very fashionable for dirigible travel. Oh, and Professor Lyall once brought a werewolf named Biffy to her parlor when he was a baby werewolf. A new werewolf? Is there a special word for recently werewolfed werewolves?"

sorry for the wait :B had to determine echoes

[professorwolf]

Though he thinks "everything" might take a little longer, for him, he doesn't protest. He just lets her talk-- and is hit with what feels like two pulses directly on top of each other. Along with that comes quite a bit of knowledge... some of which he finds he doesn't really like much.

"Conall Maccon. The large man's name is Lord Conall Maccon, and he was my-- he was the first fellow's Alpha werewolf." He shakes his head to clear it. "Apparently he was quite fond of your Ruffled Parasol, and the other fellow always had to correct his clothing...." And he'd also caused a rebellion in his previous pack, for the sole purpose of bringing him to his. There is so much emotion wrought up in that, that he doesn't quite know how to process it, especially since he doesn't know where the emotion even comes from.

oh man i just realized i never tagged you back, sorry

[pokebonnet]

"Oh," says Ivy. She's quiet for a moment, with a faraway expression. It's pretty obvious she's experiencing another pulse. "He wasn't just fond--they got married. Lady Maccon. Ruffled Parasol was Lady Maccon."

s'okay <3

[professorwolf]

"At least they are all connected. Perhaps that is how we knew each other, Miss Curry... though them." He, at least, is not being hit by another double-whammy. Thank god. "I did work very closely with Conall, and you seem to have been close enough with his Lady to have been, er, inducted into whatever that was." He's still not volunteering a lot, himself, because he's still trying to get his own thoughts, and emotions for that matter, in order.

Re: s'okay <3

[pokebonnet]

"Mrs," Ivy corrects absent-mindedly. "And she was my best friend, for all that I can't remember her maiden name now."