117 Howls: Enjoying the Sand While the Sun Shines

[coyote_walking]

[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.]

Comments

[lovelydragoon]

[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.

[coyote_walking]

[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.

[lovelydragoon]

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

[coyote_walking]

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

[lovelydragoon]

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

[coyote_walking]

[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.

[lovelydragoon]

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

It sounds like it.

[coyote_walking]

Life, you know?

[She shrugs again.]

Nothing you can do but deal.

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

[lovelydragoon]

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

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

[coyote_walking]

Do you... ride him?

[lovelydragoon]

Sometimes. He doesn't mind carrying me.

[coyote_walking]

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.

[lovelydragoon]

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

[coyote_walking]

He absolutely does. What is he really, then?