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[chuffle]

In India, there are villages where the people wear masks on the the backs of their heads, because tigers won't attack someone who is facing them. It's functional, and it's real, but you can take it as a metaphor. You face something that will eat you, and you do it by not turning away. By showing them your eyes.

Wolves are different. Wolves will attack something facing them, but not the way you think. It's a hunting tactic, you know. Wolves attack faces - that's just how to get an elk down, to bring it down by the nose. How do you even deal with something like that? You face it down and it aims for your nose. There's not even logic in that!

Frankly-

[There's a sigh]

Frankly, this place is getting to me. Tigers and wolves be damned. I didn't think anything was worse than a fifteen hour international flight into Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport but apparently what's worst is a pleasure cruise to God knows where through the far reaches of space.

Man.

Fuck anything that attacks you by biting you on the nose.

By the way, who's taking care of all the farm animals in the O2 Gardens, and are you willing to trade for them?

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[strayed]

So it's better to attack when someone's got their back turned?

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[chuffle]

Are you the one doing the attacking?

I'm talking about the attacked, in this analogy.

video;

[strayed]

How does that make it any different? You'd rather be stabbed in the back?

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[chuffle]

I would rather not be stabbed at all.

I don't think there's honor in either, really.

[kutte]

Apparently, we can't eat the pig.

[ you better believe jax is still bitter. ]

You okay, darlin'?

[chuffle]

Okay I'm sorry I know what purpose a cow or chickens serve. Milk and eggs and everything. But a pig? All it's there for is to be eaten.

[Oh Jax.]

I've been better.

[kutte]

That's what I said. What I'd fucking do for some bacon to go with my eggs.

[ priorities ]

You think smacking me around would help you get over it?

[chuffle]

At some point someone is going to stop being the gatekeeper to the pig. That's all I'm saying.

Yeah, I think it would help.

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[deagle]

You know, staring a wolf back in the eyes can also save your life. Holding your ground like that is something I imagine elk don't do. Call it a tactical advantage.

[ he's pretty sure she's not saying this on the network to get any werewolf survival skills from him though. ]

I think this place is getting to all of us.

video;

[chuffle]

Yeah? I have a bad habit of staring things down, maybe I won't die in the woods on a dark night.

You know the worst part is that we all know it.

video;

[deagle]

I'd do you mask trick too, just to be on the safe side.

Best to keep yourself distracted, I think. How long have you been here?

video;

[chuffle]

My cousins in India used to swear by it.

[A pause.]

I don't know. You lose track, you know? But I think it's been about a year.

voice;

[handelaar]

The chickens are mine.

[Sighed out - he sounds much more down about it than a person who now owns all the chickens should. Jaaaaaye :c
also he's so busy being mopey that he forgets to actually answer her question, gj nederland.]

voice;

[chuffle]

So....trade?

[handelaar]

[p...ause]



For what.

[chuffle]

What do you want?

video;

[moonstruck]

[And here's someone you've never met before! Right?]

So are you saying that tigers are more reasonable creatures than wolves?

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[chuffle]

[HELLO STRANGER]

Cats are always more reasonable than dogs.

[moonstruck]

Is that so? A dog person would disagree.

( voice )

[somerville]

At least you aren't an elk, my dear. I don't think your nose would be too convenient for biting - not like that, at least.

( voice )

[chuffle]

I'm not nearly skittish enough.

( voice )

[somerville]

No, I don't imagine you are. You strike me as quite the opposite.

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[vindictam]

It's the fear. Nothing makes prey panic like death so close to their eyes. And once you panic, your strength counts for nothing.

[ Or maybe it's just because he's both. he wears a mask, and he'd gripped men's faces in his hands as he drove a blade deep in their neck -- and how he'd savoured it. ]

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[chuffle]

Biology would argue with you. Adrenaline.

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[vindictam]

Perhaps. But only if you have any ability to couple with it. If you do not, you are as struck dumb as the rest.