14 Howls: Freaking out

[coyote_walking]

What the...?

I can't...

What is wrong with me?

I can't smell anything!

And I can't... I can't shift.

I feel like I'm going to lose it.

Comments

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

Then I should be okay by tomorrow, right? If it's a curse?

[alittlewild.livejournal.com]

I was. All better at midnight. It really sucked to have human senses for the day.

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I never realized just how much I was different from a normal human.

I mean, I knew I had enhanced senses, but it's different when you lose them.

[alittlewild.livejournal.com]

For me it was like suddenly being blind and dear would be for a human. I don't think my boss really liked that for an excuse to miss work but I wasn't coming in.

Mind me asking what you are?

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

I'm a walker. I can shift into a coyote.

Except for today, apparently.

[alittlewild.livejournal.com]

In regular human form you have enhanced senses?

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

Better hearing and eyesight, much better sense of smell.

I'm a little stronger and faster than average, too.

Not as much as the werewolves are, but more than human normal.

[alittlewild.livejournal.com]

Must be kind of nice to be able to actually shift into the animal.

Is it genetic for you and the werewolves in your world? Or something else?

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

You're... not a shifter of some kind then?

It's genetic for me. Werewolves have to be turned. It's a pretty vicious process.

[alittlewild.livejournal.com]

No, in my world I'm what's called a Feral. I'm of the feline classification.

Mine's genetic but not hereditary. It was done by genetic tampering. Like in the myths?

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

Wow, that must... make things difficult.

Why did they do something like that?

[alittlewild.livejournal.com]

Difficult?

Attempting to play God? Some of the scientists thought they were trying to find a cure for diseases. The real reasons were more in the making weapons area.

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry.

What a terrible thing to do to people.

[alittlewild.livejournal.com]

Don't be, I love what I am. I just hate that we're hunted.

Guess there's nothing like that in your world?

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

Not that I know of.

Doesn't mean it's not there.

Most of the supernatural things are still hiding under the radar.

[alittlewild.livejournal.com]

We're not supernatural, more just genetically altered.

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

I don't think the average human back home would see much difference, honestly.

[alittlewild.livejournal.com]

Probably not, so most humans don't know supernatural things exist in your world?

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

They know about the fae. Some of them at least. The gentle not-so-powerful ones. The rest are still hidden.

[alittlewild.livejournal.com]

The fae?

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

You know, elves, brownies, trolls? Those sort of things?

[alittlewild.livejournal.com]

Seriously?

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how serious.

[alittlewild.livejournal.com]

How'd regular people find out about them?

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

They sort of... came out of the closet about twenty years ago.