Xaviers!

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 5:28 pm**

Tereza seems to ponder how to explain it for a long moment. "She... knows she's yours. You... make... it okay to be her... us... her. And... I think... she craves that."

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 5:42 pm**

"Half the time it seems like I'm the only thing you agree on."

"But I do want you to be able to agree. I don't want you at war with yourself. She's not something that was put into you. She feels like something that was brought out of you."

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 5:58 pm**

"Sound like Isolde," Tereza frowns, looking around as if saying the woman's name will bring her out of the woods to say 'I told you so'. When it doesn't, she focuses back on Sam. "She's dangerous." What little Sam's getting through the link leaves the subject of 'she' ambiguous.

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 6:41 pm**

"You're pretty dangerous yourself, before you picked up the trick of turning into a wolf."

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 6:44 pm**

"She's... contagious..."

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 6:46 pm**

"Is that what this about? That's what has you spooked?"

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 6:50 pm**

Tereza cringes a bit at the emphasis. "Always... worried..."

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 6:51 pm**

"You figured I'd hold you back. Didn't bargain on me going along for the ride."

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 6:57 pm**

Tereza shakes her head, pushing her palms onto her forehead as she tries to figure out how to explain it in this form. "Light... center..." Her jaws snap in frustration as she struggles with the words.

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 7:02 pm**

"...love, I can pick you up better if you let me in."

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 7:12 pm**

"No!" She snarls, backing up a few steps. "Caused trouble first place. She can't not hear you. You make her wild-tame. She'd... make more..." Sam can sense the wolf's frustration with Tereza snowballing on Tereza's own frustrations.

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 7:20 pm**

"You don't trust her to hold back, and she doesn't trust you to follow through."

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 7:23 pm**

Tereza nods, at least readily in agreement to the first part and Sam can sense the wolf's agreement to the second part.

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 7:24 pm**

"And I know both of you can do either of those. I've seen it. Felt it."

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 7:40 pm**

"Frightened. Don't like it." See. Soft.

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 7:49 pm**

"I think she's the part of you that you had to rely on when you didn't have anyone else you could trust."

"So she's slow to trust and quick to lash out. You don't like what that says about you."

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 8:03 pm**

"But I can trust..." She makes a gesture that encompasses both Sam and Will.

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 8:19 pm**

"And she didn't attack either of us. So you agree there, aye?"

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 10:01 pm**

Tereza looks uncertain, but nods all the same.

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 10:24 pm**

"She's not on a leash, but wolves aren't rabid by default."

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 10:31 pm**

"That's... fair."

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:31 pm**

"And it'd be unfair to think of her as a pet, aye? No matter how much she likes ear scritchies, she's still wild."

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:31 pm**

"Um," Will said, clearing his throat. "That should be up to her, shouldn't it?"

Posted: **Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:58 pm**

Tereza looks back and forth between Sam and Will, a little uncertainty on her face as the wolf has quieted in contemplation.

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2018 12:03 am**

"Well I mean... I suppose it isn't a choice I'd deny her."

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2018 12:41 am**

Now it looks like Tereza is listening to something else. "You... keep her... centered... even." She looks puzzled, "Boundaries? Not sure... what she means."

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2018 2:04 am**

"So she wants me to give her boundaries."

"...hearing a lot of that, lately."

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2018 4:59 am**

Will looked away, guiltily.

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2018 1:55 pm**

That frustration crept back into Tereza's eyes. "Shouldn't be you... should be me... doing that."

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2018 2:19 pm**

"She's you. How do you see her taking that, when she thinks you're soft?"

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2018 2:27 pm**

Tereza gets agitated as if having some sort of internal argument. "Not soft. Worried."

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2018 2:32 pm**

"I don't think 'worry' is in her vocabulary."

"She's a wolf. If it's a threat she deals with it. If it isn't she ignores it."

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2018 3:58 pm**

"A lot of threats... always... at war."

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2018 5:49 pm**

"So we have to give her a place where she doesn't feel she's at war, aye?"

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2018 6:05 pm**

"I... try... doesn't seem... to help." She picks at the ground, flicking snow around.

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2018 6:09 pm**

"Does she really feel it if she's fighting you too?"

"Maybe you have to figure out what instincts of hers work for you."

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2018 6:27 pm**

Tereza sighs and flops to the ground, "Fair." She looks anywhere but Sam and Will, "Still dangerous."

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2018 6:43 pm**

"...I'm not trying to beat you over the head with it, love."

"If anything, I need to figure out what works for me, too."

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2018 7:06 pm**

Another sigh escapes Tereza, "So tired... of fighting her... and losing..." She closes her eyes and Sam can feel the connection between start to ease back open.

Posted: **Wed Aug 22, 2018 7:10 pm**

Sam kneels down by Tereza, wrapping an arm around her.

"We're both going to learn how to own what we are."

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