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[abrahamic]

[ Look, it's an Isaac, slouching in his old room - the one that matches the numbers on his arm, not the one he sleeps in. It looks mostly unused because he's only been in there for all of six hours before he moved down to Derek's space. "Mostly" is a keyword, though; he's been staying here infrequently, in between avoiding Derek and other familiar (adult) faces. Maybe Erica knows where he's been. Or Remus, or Hayley, or Tyler, or Seraphim. He's pretty sure no one over eighteen knows, Isaac's gone lengths on the matter.

He's not wearing his mask, even if he's been wearing it a lot lately; Isaac knows a thing or two about keeping quiet, especially about things that can and do hurt you. The confused sad look he's wearing right now, though - it's a bit too clean. It's sincere, mostly.

"Mostly" is our word of the day.

Then he holds up a combat knife for the network to see.]

I don't know anyone she was friends with, but for what it's worth, Miss Rosella's not around anymore. She left me this, for some reason.

It's a pretty big knife.

Anyway, people have been disappearing, and there's this big thing going down about Smiley and stuff, so I guess this is a bad time to ask about gym equipment, and like. Who do we talk to about appropriating one of the bigger rooms or a holodeck to set up a gym? I mean, we probably already have one or two but this one's more of like, a club thing?

More of a thing that's just ours, not something pre-made and ready to use. Is that allowed?

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[ FILTERED TO-- DEREK HALE : AUGGIE ANDERSON : JENNA SOMMERS : JOSH LEVINSON || viewable to erica reyes ]
i checked everywhere i could and i can't find her. network id's 404 error-ing me, so i guess she's not on the ship anymore.

this is the knife she stabbed me with, i'm pretty sure.

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[ ooc: if anyone wants to say they saw isaac sneaking around and stuff, feel free to say something about it! isaac's been: a) helping erica look for boyd, b) helping tyler look for his uncle, c) hiding from hunters, d) hiding from derek, e) hiding from adults in general, so if you're 21+ and you noticed a teenager quietly avoiding you in the hallways, it's probably isaac. team jailbait can just throw him a rock or something, though, because he's been emoting over some of the recent drops. ]

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[entrapments]

i'm not sure anything but 'twisted' could possibly fly.

[ which is neither here nor there in the world of potential compliments or insults- but it's a thing nonetheless. she leans back on the bed, rolls the communicator around in her hand and stares at the ceiling for a moment before she replies. the thing about her curiosity, she's found, is that isaac is- unusually forthcoming about indulging it.

and she hasn't decided if that makes her wary or not. ]

i guess they're supposed to say something about us.

[abrahamic]

i guess i have a fear of leatherface, then.

[ He can't say that sometimes, under the right light, the mask looks eerily like the disfigured face of his own father as he saw him in the nightmare world. He's the only one who could have possibly recognized the stalking figure in the basement; the kanima had left distinct wounds all over Mr. Lahey's body, and Isaac still remembers each one.

But his dad is dead. Nearly everyone who matters is either dead or gone, at least back home, and he's just a young son rebuilding a house from the pieces left in ruin.

This is why he doesn't have much hesitation to answer questions — all of his secrets are worn into his skin. There's no way to lie around that without forgetting who died to keep those truths alive. ]

couldn't these things have come with a manual or some shit, really.

[entrapments]

i'm not sure it's a fear thing.
i'm not afraid of the big bad wolf.

[ he's the first person she's told- and hayley isn't sure if the smile that flickers over her face is because she's said it at all, or because she finds some modicum of humor in the whole bit.

maybe it's because she wants to be known, but at this point, hayley herself isn't sure what that means. if it means anything at all. she stopped looking for who she was ages ago, and if there'd been a cost, some price to pay for it, she tells herself she hasn't noticed enough that she believes it. ]

who do you see? when you wear it.

[abrahamic]

my dad, sometimes. me. other people. could be anybody.

[ it's a very telling answer, and isaac recognizes it to a degree. but he's never been all about introspection; that's what derek does, and what stiles does, what everybody else around him likes to do when things go quiet and there's people possibly dying very soon.

isaac does what he needs to do to survive. that's the only thing he feels he needs to think about. everything else is a privilege he can sometimes afford. ]

sometimes wolves don't look like wolves, you know.

[entrapments]

[ that's a world of information in and of itself, and spills out more than she could've expected. oh, she thinks. and it doesn't get much further than that. there's some parable about nothing to fear but fear itself, and hayley knows that people like to believe it's true, but it's only half right. fear fear. and fear people who don't feel it as much as you fear those who act on it. where isaac fits into any of this, with his father, she doesn't know.

hayley'd say, with the boy's silences, that it doesn't matter.

but it does. ]

i learned that a long time ago.