Backdated to late Nov. 28 | text; un: Constantine

[keepgodwaiting]

[ Sometimes later in the day than Ethan's announcement, and shortly after getting yelled at for COMPLETELY REASONABLE ACTIONS, the network updates with: ]

I'm not dead just let me sleep it off

[ Then, grumpily, Constantine pulls the covers over her head and attempts to go back to sleep. ]

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[ ooc: Reactions welcome, threadjacking fine, Johanna's DMs open! ]

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[keepgodwaiting]

okay

Good. I'm glad you have help.

Do you know what can stop it if it does happen again?

[ Hope for the best. Plan for the worst. ]

[lupusintus]

Silver can kill a werewolf.

[ Not maim, he's going straight for the big guns. ]

[keepgodwaiting]

Would it cure you, do you think? Or does it not work like that?

[lupusintus]

There's no cure for what I am.

It would kill me. If it's between me or someone else, you know who I'll choose.

[keepgodwaiting]

[ There's a long delay before the next text. ]

Have you ever tried talking to it?

[lupusintus]

[ Pause, meet pause. ]

I wouldn't even begin to know how.

Even if I could, the wolf wouldn't be able to talk back. The best way to describe it would be saying when one is awake, the other one sleeps. We're two sides of the same coin, unable to look each other in the eye.

[keepgodwaiting]

Hypnosis, meditation, hallucinogenics, lucid dreaming

The wolf can't talk back in English but that doesn't mean it can't communicate. It wants things. They aren't necessarily different than what you want, not all of them.

[lupusintus]

If you told me that a year ago, I would have thought you were mad as a hatter.

Say it does talk back, what if it goes wrong? The only thing the wolf wants is blood, its whole existence is steeped in violence. A violence I'm not eager to push onto anyone else if things go south and they already have. Werewolves are feared for a reason, they can turn a man who has had his fill of violence into one who craves it.

[ There's a pause in his reply, as he considers something. ]

I've experienced dream walking before.

[keepgodwaiting]

We can agree on one thing, old son, it HAS already gone wrong

So since evidently whatever you've been trying thus far has a non-zero failure rate so why not try something new

I have a vested bloody interest in this not happening again and I should think you do to

You need a better reason than "what if"

[lupusintus]

[ Goddamnit, Constantine, now she uses logic. After spending the evening hunting a werewolf. He sighs on his end, scrubbing at his face with both hands. She's not wrong, that's for sure. ]

Trust me when I say it can get worse. People don't survive, Miss Constantine, this place is the one who saved them. Not luck, not some kind of miracle. If we were back in London there wouldn't be anyone here to tell the tale.

I never said I wouldn't try it, I'm just giving you the facts.

You think I enjoy this? I'll do whatever I need to do, no matter how outlandish the option, if it works. Sitting around hoping something doesn't go wrong isn't doing anything.

[ A beat. ] I don't suppose asking you not to chase werewolves in the future would do any good, would it?

[keepgodwaiting]

what on earth do you mean "this place saved them"

[ Genuinely, she does not follow him here. Does he credit the glass doors with saving her and Hob? Or the City's phones with getting Daan there in time to keep Nails alive? ]

tw: gore, death, cannibal..ism idek...

[lupusintus]

Back home they didn't find bodies after the full moon.

They found pieces of whatever the wolf decided not to eat. If it doesn't eat them, it leaves them in an unrecognizable state. Do you understand what I'm saying? No one should have survived last night.

The only thing that has changed is being in this place. The fact that ropes were able to hold it back means it's not as strong here. I don't know why or how but if they took away my guns, it's possible they did something to the wolf too.

[keepgodwaiting]

[ HOO BOY. Johanna reads this a couple of times, grimacing at the not-very-implied implications, and blows out a breath. ]

I get the picture

Reckon they did do something to you. They've weakened everyone else that could be dangerous. Not enough to keep us from being dangerous to each other, clearly, but enough to keep us from being dangerous to them.

But there's still people here who can do things you didn't have access to in London. You're on board for something outlandish. Let's find something outlandish.

or

maybe chains

[ Not that she has any idea where to find chains in this City. ]

or drugs

[lupusintus]

It's not pretty but those are the facts.

I'm on board, yes, but whatever happens I don't want you anywhere near me when I change. I felt its rage, Miss Constantine, and it knows your scent now. If something goes wrong and I hurt you-

I know you're no damsel in distress and I know better than to demand, so I'm asking you to stay back.

[ Drugs. On a werewolf. Constantine. ]

Let's start with the chains and work our way up from there.

[keepgodwaiting]

[ Sedatives, dude, not cocaine. Maybe marijuana. Chill the thing out a bit. ]

No fear, mate. I'm not going to let you kill me.

Does it have something against me?

[lupusintus]

[ What if it gets the munchies.. ]

It has something against everyone.

Normally wolves avoid humans, they don't see them as prey. If they do approach you can usually scare them off by acting aggressively, standing your ground, never showing them your back and making a lot of noise. Hunting makes them fearful, lets them know they aren't the predator in this case.

Werewolves are different. They are the hunter and will keep going until the prey falls without care because there are no natural predators. I don't know for certain but, if I can help it, anyone who met the wolf that night should be kept away. You three were the last thing it saw before Miss Ives was able to get through to me.

[keepgodwaiting]

Teeth of a wolf and the chip on the shoulder of a human. Dangerous combination

Who do you trust to help you, then? Ives, anyone else?

[lupusintus]

If I could control it maybe it wouldn't be. Or if I could direct it somehow.

It isn't that I don't trust anyone else, I don't trust myself not to hurt them. [ Well, he did trust Dorian before last night. But now? Not as far as he can throw him. ] If there comes a time when she's sent home, I'll have to trust someone. Know anyone else as reckless as you are?

[ He means it fondly, of course. ]

[keepgodwaiting]

I'm one of a kind. But I'll keep an ear out.

Would you be willing to try contacting it and talking to it

Nowhere near the full moon. New moon maybe.

[lupusintus]

I know that much.

Willing is a strong word. Tolerant of the idea feels like a better way to phrase it, I don't know how this is going to end.

Maybe you aren't as reckless as I thought you were. [ No, she absolutely is, especially if she wants to help him talk to the damn wolf. This is him being openminded. ]