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[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

True to his word, Allen has diagnostic exams ready for the taking. A stack of personal screens from the media lab sits next to his work table in the Engineering department, all programmed with tests. Long ones, since they're diagnostic, not cumulative.

One of them is, in fact, programmed with Superboy's name on it. Because Allen is a smartass like that.

"You know Stace, it would be nice if I could have a sign for the door. 'Open Call for Students-slash-Teachers,' something like that," he says, as he roots through the engineering department, looking for just such a thing to make a sign with.

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[withteethbared.livejournal.com]

Bella sits also, she has to pause and think. "I think it was that the Weaver was angry that things changed. She liked her job, but she thought that the Wyld and Wyrm were ruining it. She does not like it when things change. Some say it is broken. Some say it is just unbalanced. But if that is true then I do not know how to fix it." This is Bella, speculating. She remembers a lot of what she's been told, and that there are a couple different versions of the tale to boot.

"It has been a long time. Years and years and years and years. Longer than anyone can remember. Before humans made cities, even. I have walked two winters, it is more time than I know how to say." Bella, were she human, would shrug here. The concept of centuries is already a stretch for her in-the-present mind, much less the deep, ancient history of the world.

"Garou are Gaia's warriors. We fight the Wyrm's spawn wherever we can. Its spirits feed on anger and hate and vile things and wrongness, and then they in turn make more of it. The Weaver may not attack us immediately, and we may use her things sometimes, but she will pull us into her claws just as surely."

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

"What kind of things do the Wrym spawn? And tell me more about Gaia."

[withteethbared.livejournal.com]

"Banes. Lots of Banes," says Bella. "Bad spirits. They take over people and turn them into Fomori sometimes. My pack has killed Fomori before, it was very messy. There are many kinds of Wyrm spirits. None of them are good. I have not seen very many of them though." She flattens her ears a little. Bella likes fighting Wyrmspawn, she wants to get to do more of that. "There are even Garou that the Wyrm has taken and made mad and evil and broken. They are called the Black Spiral Dancers." She growls at the thought of them. "They are the worst kind of enemy. I have never met one but if I do I will kill it, and I will tear it into pieces, and I will burn what remains of it," she says with a sudden fierceness that she just manages to hold back.

Gaia. About Gaia. Gaia is a good thing, this relaxes her a little. When Bella continues, it's with a little more concern.

"Gaia is Mother. Gaia made the world and everything. She made the Garou and the other changers, and the triat. She is... I think she sleeps. She is very weak and very sick now. That is why she needs us to fight the Wyrm."