It Thrives

[withteethbared.livejournal.com]

Bella's been down in the City a lot lately, since she and One-Leaf-Ear discovered the Plant Temple. Not that it can really be called a temple anymore, for the plant itself has regrown to form a loose round dome of narrow trees, with several child-sized flower buds scattered about its heart. It's... serene in there. Not unlike the presence of the Garibah Tree. There's none of the slow intelligence to it, but the place is alive as one entity.

Bella can be seen through the spaces between the trees, bounding around on the unusually healthy-looking green grass.

She seems to be doing some kind of drill.

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[compromise-wolf.livejournal.com]

There's a happy chuff as Leaf trots towards the former temple, her ears up and her tail waving. The fact that she still has to make her way through the scab to get to it is unpleasant, but seeing something green and wild growing is pleasant.

"Still no Weaver taint?" she calls, stopping as she reaches the edge of the grass to look it over and sniff.

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Bella lands from one of her pounces, and perks up. "No, I do not think so but I can not sense it. It is alive here." She wags.

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"Neither can I, but it does not look like it, at least. Not like it did before." Satisfied by her sniffing, Leaf trots onto the grass proper and drops down to roll in it.

[withteethbared.livejournal.com]

"I think we should tell the Gnawers," says Bella. She's a little reluctant. Crazy city-wolves, they probably won't appreciate it properly.

She's also only bringing this up now that she's sure they didn't accidentally kill this place. That would've gone over well.

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Leaf pauses in her rolling, getting back to her feet and shaking herself off. "We should," she agrees, twitching her ears forward. "Though I doubt they will spend much time here. The rest of the scab is what their usual territory is like."

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"But we are Garou." Bella has one Gnawer packmate, or had one anyway.

"Do you think they will hear if we howl?"

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"The urrah are different. They are strange." Leaf tilts her head to the side, looking around thoughtfully. "They may. It depends on where they are."

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"We can try," she says. She doesn't like to use the telepathy rings. They are a Weird Human Thing and as such are beneath her dignity, even if she has one around one toe on her right forepaw for contact reasons. She's used to it now and will take hails from it, but she prefers a more usual mode of communication.

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"It could not hurt." With that, Leaf throws her head back and howls sharply. Wake up, Gnawers, there's important Gaia-ly things down here!

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Bella joins in the howl. She's clearly happy. Come down here, come see, we found something!

[wolf-that-grins.livejournal.com]

Wags shows up fairly quickly, more than a little irritated with the Ahroun.

"Stop. Doing. That."

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Leaf gives Wags a reproachful look. "Howling is the best way to call across distances, and there is no Veil here. Why be annoyed?"

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"Chill out dude," Plays laughs as he trots up, "It's just some howling."

He nods respectfully to his fellow Garou, grinning. It's good to see them all again.

[wolf-that-grins.livejournal.com]

"I'm just a little on edge, alright?" Wags said, looking around.

"This is new." he said, stating the obvious.

[withteethbared.livejournal.com]

Bella does not offer further comment on the howling. Leaf got it. It would be disrespectful to elaborate.

"One-Leaf-Ear and I found this place," she explains. "It was like a building of plants. We broke whatever was binding it to that shape, so now it grows free. It is alive, can you feel?"

Bella decides to rephrase the "we poked a giant flower and the thing went nuts" explanation to make it sound more impressive.

[compromise-wolf.livejournal.com]

"Yes," Leaf agrees, her mood picking back up as Bella takes over. "It is how it should be now. Before it, it looked as if it had been Weaver-tainted."

She paws at the ground with a forefoot. "It is better this way."

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Tony laughs, "Guess so."

He's feeling pretty good, actually. He's got a girlfriend and nightmares aside... He shrugs and then gets serious.

"Guys. I think we need to think about formally making ourselves a pack, y'know?"