[Open] Trying to make sense

[undomesticated]

WHO: Riley and whomever (Open)
WHAT: Assessing her new situation
WHERE: Around the town
WHEN: Evening of Day 49
WARNINGS: None. I'll be certain to update if any are required.

Waking up away from home when she knew for damn sure she'd been at home was strange enough. Waking up somewhere she also knew she'd never been before with some strange looking not-watch on her wrist was pushing it. The final straw had been when she'd gone looking for someone, hoping she could figure out where she was and what the hell had happened only to find cameras everywhere. She felt like she'd been tossed into some weird reality show, but a sliver of fear worked its way into her stomach when she thought of why she might have been chosen.

She'd always been careful on her runs, making sure if she went for one shifted in the woods that there were no humans nearby. She was open with other shifters about herself, but she knew better around humans. You never knew who was a hunter or who would be the wrong person to tell. The thought that she'd been found out somehow and had been captured, dumped here for some weird experiment or something was something she'd secretly feared. Being found out and contained, poked and prodded at and experimented on so that they could figure out the whats and whys...

No. That hadn't happened here, had it? She'd been told not to leave, that this was her 'home'. Bullshit. Her home was with her family, and she couldn't pick up any of their scents. She could pick up the scents of others, light little wisps on the wind. Determined to figure out what exactly was going on, she set off to see if she could find the source of one of those scents.

{ooc: Riley will be poking around most of the town, so you're more than welcome to come across her wherever is most comfortable for your character.}

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[bostonhowler]

The feline smell was stronger. Her ears picked up the soft step of someone close. Brigid wondered if there was someone here that had big cats around. A growl almost curled her lip. She wondered what was going on. Seeing the girl step into the woods, Brigid frowned.

She stepped out from around a tree and saw the girl.

Kanima? They are the werejaguars. Even if they look like lizards.

"Hi." Better to start with something innocent. There was a hunter in town.

[undomesticated]

She was almost relieved when she saw the girl appear from behind a tree until she caught the stronger scent of canine. With no dog in sight, that left only one option to her and it made that sliver of fear jab in a little further. "Hi."

She offered the redheaded girl a small smile, unsure of her welcome here. Maybe this was her territory and she might take offense to an unwelcome shifter traipsing around in it. "I'm Riley. I, um... I just woke up here and, well, I'm not quite sure where here is."

[bostonhowler]

She cocked her head to the side, offering a smile in return. Brigid wondered at the smell of feline. There were, of course, legends about shifters that were cats, but she'd never seen one. "I'm Brigid." She offered, without extending her hand. Something wasn't right.

"This is Cape Kore... which explains nothing, but I don't really know much more than that." Brigid doesn't mind admitting that. "I've only been here a few days." Her fingers fidget at the tree bark for a moment.

[undomesticated]

"Cape Kore? I don't think I've heard of that place before. Are we even still in the U.S.?" It smelled like it. The trees weren't anything she'd seen in some of the other continents, leading her to believe they were at least still in North America.

She started to chew on her lower lip, her own form of fidgeting as she looked over at Brigid. "So, you don't know why we were taken? This isn't some sort of... study?"

[bostonhowler]

"I don't know. I was walking down the street in Boston and then, suddenly, at the fountain." She flicked her eyes away, looking deeper into the woods. "There are others here, and I don't think they're from my world." Brigid scratched her back against the bark.

"No one knows why were taken. St. Raphael said even he is trapped here, and anything that can trap him is... beyond anything I've ever read about." She shrugged.

[undomesticated]

Her mouth opened to respond, but she couldn't think of anything to say in response to that that didn't sound rude. Other worlds? What was that supposed to mean. The last thing she wanted to do was offend the first person she'd run into here, but none of what Brigid was saying made too much sense to her. "What exactly does that mean? Who's St. Raphael and why are we trapped here?"

[bostonhowler]

"I don't know. It's a giant fishbowl, more than anything from what I can tell." Her fingers fidgeted with the end of her hoodie sleeves. She wondered at the smell of feline, but didn't ask.

"St. Raphael. The archangel? He and his brother St. Lucifer are here." She wondered at people who didn't know who the archangels were. "And I don't know why."

[undomesticated]

"Whoa. Wait a second. You're trying to tell me there are archangels here? Like... really real ones?" The incredulity in her tone was more than apparent, her eyes wide as she looked at Brigid. Something was seriously off with this conversation. Maybe they put something in the water?

[bostonhowler]

Brigid smiled, something soft, and genuine and content, despite her circumstances. "Really real ones. St. Raphael and St. Lucifer are here."

Her hand rose to touch the crucifix that she hadn't worn the day she was grabbed to come here. "They've been in the church, every time I've seen them."

[undomesticated]

Taking a deep breath, she found her cheeks puffing out as she released it. Angels. Really? "Call me crazy, but isn't Lucifer supposed to be, like, the devil?" She wasn't Catholic, having been brought up in far too many cultures and religions to have subscribed to just one.

[bostonhowler]

Brigid snorted. The stupid ideals like that made her frustrated. "No." She had known that before taking Comparative Religion. "Lucifer was given a bad job. God knows all and sees all; therefor there isn't any possible way to rebel against God." She bit her lip. "Sorry. My priest back home had ideas about Lucifer."

[undomesticated]

"No, I'm sorry. I'm not really all that up to speed on saints and angels and all that." She shrugged slightly, ears pricking to hear the sounds around them. Nothing more than the normal sounds of a forest settling. "What about... you? I guess I'm asking, um, why they'd bring angels and... others here?" She'd wanted to broach the subject of what Brigid was, but she wasn't certain about the cameras that seemed to be everywhere.

[bostonhowler]

Brigid wondered about the girl dancing around the subject. Normally, they would just quietly acknowledge it and move on. She bit her lip and sighed. "I don't know." She said again, this time shaking her head. "No one seems to. They're recording us." She pointed at the cameras.

Her fingers fidgeted again. "They brought a hunter here too." It was a careful foray into what they actually were.

[undomesticated]

She scowled when she heard that, arms moving to fold across her chest as she looked up at one of the cameras. "Dammit. Do they know about you?" She hoped the answer was no. It might make them less likely to think of each new arrival as a potential shifter, which meant she might be able to avoid feeling the cross hairs aimed at her.

[bostonhowler]

"Not as far as I know, no." Because she doesn't know what had happened while she'd been asleep. How long had she been asleep? Had anyone been near her? She'd still smelled like herself, but that was possible to fake.

"His name is Dean." She was willing to share that information. It was dangerous for both of them.

[undomesticated]

"Dean." She nodded, keeping it in mind that she had to be on her toes around anyone with that name. "Are there any others?" She was referring to shapeshifters, wondering if this was some kind of test of the hunter to see if he could pick out the shifters from the humans -- if there were any other humans here.

[bostonhowler]

She shook her head. "I haven't met any other than him." Brigid admitted. "I only know because St. Raphael warned me." She planned on telling him about this girl. He seemed interested in her.

Brigid cocked her head to the side. "How much of the town have you seen?"

[undomesticated]

Only one hunter. That wasn't too bad. There were at least two of them if it came down to anything, but she couldn't rely on Brigid backing her yet. Not all shapeshifters felt a solidarity with others.

"Not much. I was just following a trail and seeing where it led." A scent trail, which she thought Brigid might pick up on. "Is there anything I should see?"

[bostonhowler]

Brigid wouldn't let anyone die by the hands of a hunter. Being cut in half wasn't the way for anyone to die. Even if she didn't understand the kind of shifter that Riley was.

"Not really. There's a bar, a church, the lighthouse." Brigid hadn't been around town much either. "There are big cats here in the woods, though."

[undomesticated]

"A bar." That had her almost rolling her eyes. Seemingly trapped in a town lined with cameras and they'd provided fuel for the blooper reel.

That piqued her interest, her eyes automatically moving to search through the woods even though she knew it was likely the scent of wolf would have chased anything off. "Oh? What kind?"

[bostonhowler]

She almost smiled. Almost. There were wolves in the woods too, but they weren't friendly with her. Not yet. She hoped they would be. "Sabretooth tigers, if you can believe it."

Brigid had seen one, hunched over a kill and turned the other way. Giving the cat wide berth had seemed like a good idea.

[undomesticated]

"Okay, now I know you're just pulling my leg." She couldn't help but grin, though. Seriously? Sabretooth tigers? What she wouldn't give to see one of those for real.

[bostonhowler]

Brigid felt the grin stretching her lips. "Nope." She denied. "I saw one when I was out running. Big teeth and everything." She wouldn't lie about that. They were too weird.

[undomesticated]

"How can a sabretooth tiger be running around in... I have no idea where we are?" She was starting to get weirded out, though. Sabretooth tigers, angels, the cameras... And a hunter in a pear tree, she mentally finished.

[bostonhowler]

"Again, I don't know. But they're here." Brigid sighed and pushed herself off the tree. "We're in Cape Kore, I told you." She nodded toward the woods and started walking. "No one knows how or why. I don't think it's because of... us." She took a deep breath.

"The only ones that know about me are St. Raphael and St. Lucifer. But I'd expect them to know."