New and Interesting Smells [Open]

[withteethbared.livejournal.com]

Bella's been exploring since she's been given freedom to roam a zombieless ship again. Lots of strange new places to investigate, to smell, to look at.

Mostly to smell.

The werewolf's wandering all over the ship, investigating new smells and refamiliarizing herself with the conglomerate scent of "crew", now that it has a few new members.

It's also helping her relax. They're here with her. She is not alone. They're like a sort of almost-pack, and that helps her hold on. Things will be okay as long as she isn't alone. Her thoughts are a little agitated still, but she's adapting and moving on.

To anyone else's eyes, there's a wolf wandering around without any sign of a collar or other restraint. She seems calm.

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[withteethbared.livejournal.com]

"You are a very great spirit then." Bella ducks her head further and puts her ears down, averting her eyes. She's proud and hot-headed, but she knows better than to try to lord over a river spirit. She remembers being lectured time and again about respect.

"I am finding all the new crew smells so that I can learn them. There are very many smells," she explains.

[thekohakuriver.livejournal.com]

"I am new then," Well, newer than Bella was. Haku lowers his chin a little in response, ears perking with interest. He was an arrogant creature, when he could afford to be, "I have known greater. The least of things can be most powerful, in their own way."

[withteethbared.livejournal.com]

"I did not know that the ship spirit could steal other spirits," Bella replies. She's still nervous but is managing not to tense up quite as much.

She believes as fully as she can believe anything that the ship AI's are spirits.

[thekohakuriver.livejournal.com]

"Perhaps it only takes those who had a home to anchor them," Haku suggests, still dimly bitter. He still called himself the Kohaku River...there was no river of that name. Pathetic. The dragon turns away, "If you've learned what you want, then there's nothing more for you, here."

[withteethbared.livejournal.com]

"Then I will go," says Bella simply. She makes a sort of bowing motion with her head, then turns to trot off and continue her investigations.

Ships stealing river spirits, what kind of craziness is this? Bella's starting to become desensitized to it though, this place gets ever stranger.