poly_chromatic | 117 Howls: Enjoying the Sand While the Sun Shines

[The date hadn't really occurred to her, or maybe she'd just blocked it out, not really important anyway. The important thing was that she needed to run - really run - and feel free and herself again. Plus, a coyote was much better designed to deal with all the sand.

So Mercy had put together a small pack with a change of clothes and her Network device, shifted, and headed out through the dog door set into her bedroom's door to the outside. Then she'd trekked deep enough into the woods to find more grass than sand, left her pack carefully hidden by a rock near the river, and indulged herself.

She'd run herself silly, eaten a number of small tasty creatures, run some more, then taken herself and her pack out onto a large sun-warmed rock in the river and stretched out to sun herself. She'd fallen asleep there, enjoying the solitude and the sounds of the river and the warmth of the sun and, well, just about everything.

Somewhere during her nap, she'd bumped the pack, exposing the Network Device, and accidentally turning it on.

Which would be why there was currently video broadcasting of a very content coyote sleeping in the sun.]

[OOC: Action if anyone wants to run into her or feel free to try and talk to the coyote or have Mercy shift back.]

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[Judith is the type of person who can't just stay in one place for very long, at least not without exploring every bit of it. So it shouldn't be any surprise that she's out in the middle of the woods... though it might be surprising to anyone who doesn't know her that she is exploring the woods on the back of what seems to be some kind of flying whale.

She wouldn't have even paid much attention to the coyote, except that it seemed to have fallen asleep on someone's pack, and she didn't see the person. It was a curious sight, if nothing else. Besides, the animal was cute. So she decided that this was as good a place as anywhere else to hop off of Ba'ul's back and walk around for a little bit.]

[Mercy was up on her feet, ears back a little, almost before she was fully awake. A strange smell and sound had awoken her and she'd come to attention right away. Her human sensibilities were able to override the coyote's natural instinct to flee, so she held her ground and watched the woman and strange flying animal.]

[Judith had been just looking at her surroundings for a moment, then turned back to the coyote, briefly surprised by the skeptical look the animal was giving her, and then laughing softly.]

I didn't mean to startle you.

[Mercy shook herself, then deliberately lay back down, head up. She was still alert, but showing that she was willing to wait and see what the woman was there for.]

[In truth, she wasn't really there for anything. Just wandering around and enjoying the woods. She looked around for a moment, then idly commented,]

It's still nice to be away from people sometimes, isn't it?

[She might have been talking to Ba'ul, or to the air. Or to the coyote, but Judith didn't have any particular reason to believe the animal had much reason to be around people most of the time.]

[Coyote!Mercy sighed and nodded, covering her face with her paws as if hiding, then uncovering it to watch the woman again.]

[Well, that was a curious reaction. Judith gave the animal a quizzical look.]

Did you understand that?

[Coyote!Mercy nodded again and nudged at the pack with the Network device lying on top of it. She wasn't sure if she should shift back or not, but thought it might be clear that with the device were also clothes.]

[Judith looked at the objects, clearly the belongings of someone who lived in the City. Still, she wasn't quite sure what to make of that.]

I'm not sure I understand.

Coyote!Mercy sighed, then carefully nosed the device off to the side and picked up the pack in her mouth before hustling off behind a tree. She shifted and pulled on her clothes quickly before heading back out to the river.]

Hey. Sorry. I was in my other form.

[Judith was a little surprised when the coyote ran off with the bag, and even more surprised when a human returned. Though whatever bit of confusion showed on her face quickly turned into a small smile.]

I don't think I've ever seen an animal turn into a human before.

[Mercy smiled easily.]

I'm a walker. I was born this way, but even back home I was pretty unique.

Mercedes Thompson, by the way. Nice to meet you.

I'm Judith. [She looks around the woods.] It's funny, I wasn't expecting to meet anyone out here.

[Mercy shrugged.] It's a great place to run. And I really needed to get away from my house for a while.

Oh? [A curious look. Not that she didn't understand wanting to get away from a place for a little while.]

[Mercy hesitated, then decided, what the heck.]

Things are complicated with the guy I'm... involved with.

[She sat back down on the rock with a sigh.]

His old lover just showed up in the City. The guy he was really in love with. The guy who died in his arms and is now back here alive.

It's... pretty awkward.

Hm. [She was a little surprised she got a response, actually.]

It sounds like it.

Life, you know?

[She shrugs again.]

Nothing you can do but deal.

So, tell me about this... dragon of yours.

[She almost seems surprised by the question, but then she smiles.]

That's Ba'ul. He's a friend of mine.

Do you... ride him?

Sometimes. He doesn't mind carrying me.

Wow. That's just amazing.

[Mercy smiled at the large dragon.]

I used to imagine riding on them when I was little - and reading those dragon books.

Dragons are stories in my world, too. Ba'ul isn't one, really. But he does look the part, don't you think?

He absolutely does. What is he really, then?

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