Sept. 12th: The Animal Outside

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 12:28 am

((open))

Murphy burst through an outer hedge in the hedge maze. She had been told that it was hard, but it was easy enough when you realized you could just run through the hedges.

People always made things way too difficult on themselves, Murphy thought, brushing nettles and leaves out of her hair.

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 1:57 am

Tosh, not at all there pretending to be Theseus, jumped in surprise. He certainly didn't scream like a girl either.

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 2:00 am

Murphy glances at Tosh quizzically.

"Hurt?"

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 2:03 am

"N-no..." he said, heart rate slowing, "... you just startled me."

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 2:14 am

Murphy laughs, "Sorry."

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 3:05 pm

"It's... okay... but... why are you attacking the hedges?"

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 6:34 pm

"Hedge maze," Murphy says, like the answer is obvious.

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 6:53 pm

"Okay. Why are you attacking the hedge maze?"

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 6:55 pm

"Escaping," Murphy says, raising an eyebrow. This boy was a bit thick.

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 6:58 pm

"Why not just walk out? It's just a maze."

It's faster, duh.

That's not the point!

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 6:59 pm

"Faster," Murphy says.

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 7:15 pm

See?

That's exactly why we had to repeat the obstacle course.

"But it's not about," he began, exhaling, "Nevermind."

"Name's Tosh," he smiled, offering a handshake.

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 7:16 pm

"Murphy," Murphy says, shaking Tosh's hand with a crushing grip.

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 7:23 pm

Tosh tried really hard not to show just how much that hurt, but he still winced.

Murphy's powers would sense shark, crocodile, electric eel, and something else difficult to identify behind the obvious human element.

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 7:24 pm

"Shifter?" Murphy asks.

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 7:28 pm

He stopped massaging his crushed hand and blinked. "Yeah... how'd you know?"

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 7:31 pm

"Feel it," Murphy says.

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 7:52 pm

"You sense powers?"

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 7:56 pm

Murphy shakes her head, "Animals."

She smiles and shows off her ability by shifting a row of sharp teeth.

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 8:22 pm

"Neat. I... umm... can't do partial shifting yet..."

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 8:26 pm

Murphy shakes her head, "Attributes. Traits."

She demonstrates by crouching low. Then she jumps ridiculously high in the air before landing in a crouch.

"Grasshopper."

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 8:30 pm

"You can do all animals?"

So not fair.

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 8:31 pm

Murphy holds out her hands, spreading her fingers, "Touch."

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 8:38 pm

"Any animal you've touched?" he asked.

Was this girl raised by intelligent gorillas?

I like her.

by **Hannah Murphy** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 10:31 pm

Murphy nods, scratching behind her ear.

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 11:48 pm

"So... umm... what about shifters with multi-creature hybrid forms?"

by **Hannah Murphy** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 12:38 am

Murphy shrugs. She has no idea!

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 12:43 am

"You don't say much, do you?" he chuckled.

by **Hannah Murphy** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 12:53 am

"Sorry," Murphy apologizes.

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 1:12 am

"Nothing wrong with that," he smiled.

by **Hannah Murphy** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 1:30 am

Murphy smiles back like a dog being praised.

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 1:52 am

"So... new here?"

by **Hannah Murphy** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:04 am

Murphy nods.

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 4:23 pm

"Like it?"

by **Hannah Murphy** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 9:48 pm

Murphy nods enthusiastically, "Good people. Good food."

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 12:03 am

"Yeah... heh... the food is pretty good. I certainly eat enough of it."

by **Hannah Murphy** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 1:53 am

"Meat," Murphy says, smiling a nice, wide toothy grin.

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 2:00 am

Eep!

I think I'm in love Bro.

"Mostly meat, yes," he chuckled.

by **Hannah Murphy** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 2:06 am

Murphy laughs, "Kindred spirits."

by **Toshiro Narumi** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 2:35 pm

He smiled. "It's a not-unpleasant side effect of turning into a huge shark-lizard thing."

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