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[ josh is looking a bit too disconcertingly mountain man-ish to pull off video, and he's too interested in not announcing his supernatural status to go for voice. that means anonymous text, though he's slightly reluctant to send it; he's aware this is a very weird and very specific question. ]

Who has experience with witches and shapeshifters? Either or, but if you know anything about an overlap, i.e. magic being used to prevent or prolong a shift, please share with the class.

And just to clarify: magic as in black magic, the kind with corpses and soul trading and other non-refundable mistakes. Mary Poppins need not apply.

[ and by mary poppins he means you jokers with the pink hair and the antlers. but that only covers one possibility, so a few extremely reluctant seconds later: ]

Or if you've ever just heard of shapeshifters getting stuck. Like, stuck in one form. Please share that too.

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Not just thinks of. It is a curse.

[ that's just the facts, not semantics!! ]

But I was trying to... I was working on living with it. Not fighting it. Which has clearly gone very well, but— hopefully that's not what caused this.

It's not what caused this. If anything, accepting it would make it less painful to-

[Oh.

Oh right.]

Uh, so I might have threatened to kill George. And I had to stop a shift, I've never done that before. It hurt like a bitch.

You what?

[ yes that's the tag. DAPHNE. ]

Are you asking about the threat or me stopping my shift?

The threat. Is the stopping the shift related?

[ he's very sorry that it hurt like a bitch, and he'll get back to that, but - he does it once a month and you threatened to kill pseudo-him, so the sympathy's a little lacking. ]

To the threat? Well, in the sense that I didn't-

It's related because I'm sleep deprived and it made sense at the time. But you don't remember much from when you're a wolf, do you?

[She's trying to piece things together and she's addled]

Oh, and George is fine, I didn't even wound his pride.

Fine. As long as you're all fine, then sure, whatever, that's—

[ he's not really equipped to deal with this, exhaustion and other issues aside. not that he's always particularly tactful at the best of times. ]

You mean you almost attacked him? Why?

Because he did something phenomenally stupid that he didn't understand, and when I told him how to fix it, he wouldn't, and there are things that I cannot talk about, Josh, but suffice to say I didn't feel good about myself afterwards.

But I can't talk about it with anyone, and Oxford is gone and I really wanted to sleep with him, and now I find out you're going through all this crap, and I'm scared for you.

And I don't get scared, all right?

And if you try and use that to shut me out, I will find you and end you.

I won't shut you out. I don't think that's even possible at this point, you know more about this than anyone else here— I wouldn't even if I could.

But I'm fine. You don't have to be scared for me. I'm still here. [ a pause, and then with some slightly forced levity: ] Once a month, apparently, but I'm not going anywhere.

[ and he is blatantly also going to send george a ??? text, sorry daphne. ]

You need to promise you'll contact me. I'll bring you food, drinks, clothes, entertainment, whatever. And you know you can't hurt me.

I will. I swear.

[ awkward pause. ]

And thank you for not killing my extremely embarrassing English twin.

...what do you mean, English twin?

Absolutely nothing. You know, I haven't slept in days, so—

[ but hold up. ]

You could smell him. Right?

Yes, I could smell him. I know he has that little howling issue.

[ don't you make werewolf jokes!! ]

Right. English werewolf, American werewolf. It's an inside joke.

[ and that's where it ends, thank you. ]

The word twin is a little strong, there.

We just happen to have a few things in common. Not just howling. It's a thing, but it's kind of personal— for him, not just for me. My secrets are your secrets, obviously.

[Pause.]

Does he suffer from the same family of lycanthropy as you do?

Similar. I think his is slightly different, but the basic rules seem to apply. Why?

Because there are a lot of brands of garou around here and our best bet to find you a cure is for us to have similar werewolves around.

I mean Derek's tried to bring you back, but Derek's brand of werewolf isn't like yours, is it? He might be your alpha or whatever, but that's just lip service, essentially. Your wolf might not actually give a shit.

[ oh. he hadn't thought of that. bless you, daphne. ]

He's not my alpha.

[ MOST IMPORTANT THING CLEARLY. but that said: ] You're right. I'll talk to George, see if he's got any point of reference for this mess.

Well thank god for small favors.

[It will make her less guilty about badmouthing him to Josh all the time]

Just don't tell him I thought of it, he might say no on principle.

Can't imagine why.

[ death threats, etc. but he loves you anyway. ]

You know me for the lovely and adorable scamp that is going to try and communicate with spirits for you that I am.

[But she's laughing, it's obvious, and it's not the manic laugh of a sleep-deprived lunatic.]

It's good to talk to you. Awful subject matter aside, obviously.

[ not quite laughing, but still. ]

When I'm not busy with the quest to regain my manhood, I'll give you an actual social call. I swear.

[ also not that kind of manhood, but he's beyond correcting his embarrassing wording at this point. ]

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