Matters of Black and White

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 8:46 pm

Tinkling piano sounds came out of the music room, occasionally interrupted by muttering and restarting, as Will practiced.

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 8:50 pm

Sam makes her way into the practice room. She looks a bit rough around the edges, and her ears come to slight points. She takes a seat across from Will, apparently not about to interrupt him.

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:06 pm

At first, Will apparently paid no attention to his visitor, but the song he played gradually morphed into something...well, not quite traditional, per se, nor more appropriate, quite, but...well, at least aware of his audience.

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:13 pm

"Har har," Sam says, crossing her arms.

"Having trouble with a song?"

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:19 pm

"Just trying to remember something I heard once, and twist it into something new.

Good writers borrow, great writers steal and all that," he said, with a light shrug.

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:22 pm

"Have some time to talk, or would you rather keep banging your head against that?"

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:28 pm

"You look like you need to talk," Will said, observing Sam's general state. "Rough night?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:35 pm

"Could say that. Fun night while it lasted, just... weird night."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:39 pm

"Have a little too much to drink? All part of being a college student, Sam," Will grinned, lopsided.

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:49 pm

"...I may have caused a somewhat localized religious experience."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:52 pm

"...OK, that's new and different," he said, with a frown.

"How localized are we talking about?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:55 pm

"A night club in Chelmsford?"

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:59 pm

"And I assume the nightclub is still standing? No need to check the news for reports of mass rioting, or Chelmsford declaring itself independent?" he said, with a wry chuckle.

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:00 pm

"I mean, if anything the club owner is pretty chuffed that I did it, but it's... I think you know which club by now."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:03 pm

"I actually haven't gotten out much -- I was confined to campus for a long time, remember? And I'm afraid my knowledge of 25-year old Chelmsford nightclubs isn't quite what it should be," he said, apologetically.

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:04 pm

"It's the one that's run by an immortal witch that I apparently used to date in a former life," she says as if that's the most normal thing in the world.

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:18 pm

"...You've got exes littered all across the land, don't you? I guess that comes part and parcel with being a continuation of a long line, as it were."

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:22 pm

"So aye. She's... a believer of sorts. Apparently because she's cut a deal with several of my past lives to say I won't take her."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:31 pm

"Oh, did she? Must have offered up something pretty nice to get that sort of racket going."

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:33 pm

"I don't know what the original offer was, but she's had to renew it each time. I took the deal because Viv needed some help awhile back."

"Anyway, I've got a... standing invitation of sorts at the Raven's Crest, if the name didn't give it away."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:34 pm

"She wants more performances from the Morrigan, or is she looking for more of a...private showing?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:36 pm

"I don't think she's interested in getting back with me, but having the Morrigan in full throat at the club last night... hallowed it, I suppose."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:41 pm

"Well, I can certainly understand the draw," Will nodded. "Have to admit I tried a few similar things when I was young and stupid.

Now, of course, I'm just stupid," he added, chuckling.

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:43 pm

"It didn't feel... wrong, or anything. Being believed in, just for awhile."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:45 pm

"So...you going to go back?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:46 pm

"Probably at some point?"

"Just have to... deal with some of the fallout here."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:50 pm

"Uh-oh, that sounds bad. What happened?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:53 pm

"I told Tereza I wanted to show her a good time now that I'm back from Muir. At some point it wasn't her facing forward but the wolf. Didn't shift or anything, but she'd said the wolf was riding her hard ever since the mission."

"And I just thought... well, if the wolf can be calmed down, Tereza would have an easier time of things. So I asked the wolf what she wanted."

"Then I gave it to her."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:54 pm

"And now the person is weirded out, is what you're saying?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:56 pm

"...seems like," she sighs.

"It was definitely the furthest we've ever gone. She wanted to be with me in as many ways as she could until we were worn out."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:03 pm

Will coughed slightly at that mental image.

"R...right. Well, that's...I mean, that's understandable," he said, regaining his composure.

"But you've got two voices up in there, and they might not always agree on, uh, what they want. From you or, erm, in general.

Might have ended up just encouraging the wolf. Give a mouse a cookie and all that."

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:10 pm

"My relationship with her wolf is... different."

"Which is also a religious thing, I guess."

"The wolf likes the idea of... belonging to the Morrigan."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:11 pm

Will nodded, as if that was the most normal thing in the world. "But then you've got the Tereza factor, who is a strong independent woman who don't need no goddess, snap in z formation."

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:12 pm

"...something like that. I mean, she's okay with it most of the time."

"But the wolf..."

"...I think the wolf believes."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:16 pm

"Tough to have that dichotomy in one head. It's fine if some people believe and some don't, but when they're the same person at the end of the day...

...well, yer kinda boned, I'm afraid."

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:23 pm

"I don't think she's cross with me or anything just... it was a really awkward morning."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:24 pm

"And I think that's going to have to be something you put up with while Tereza and the wolf sort of...sort each other out.

You can't treat either one the way they want to be treated without annoying the other. And if it's a true partnership in there, as opposed to Tereza just trying to keep something in check, then you have the problem of them wanting different, contradictory things at different times. You can't please both all the time."

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:26 pm

"I thought she was making progress, aye? You saw her during the mission, with the ice stuff while shifted? She never used to be able to do that at the same time."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:29 pm

Will hrmed for a moment.

"That DOES sound like progress, though maybe not in the direction you would have hoped for.

Maybe it wasn't Tereza mastering her wolf side. Maybe it's the wolf side mastering Tereza."

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:31 pm

"She doesn't seem like she's... less Tereza or anything, unless I'm missing something."

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