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You beautiful baby from the outside in - Will-o'-Wisp - 5/11/2026

Backdated to roughly 4/20, official return from Eastborne, looking for Kobold and Lichen in particular but Howff members welcome!


Wendi would take care of Selkie, of this, Will-o had no doubt. She'd seen a relationship foster between them in the short months they'd all been holed up in the cabin together in this new life, seen the beast grow close with several of his newfound littermates, in fact. He liked 'treasure-hunting' with Kobold, liked riling up Honor, liked when Lichen was at his side being her eerie self, liked sitting in the quiet nest with Grim. They were safe under his watchful eye. She might have been a little worried on what he'd be feeding the wee lad, but... nothing she could do about that now but hope he had sense.

Wisp's part was hurrying home as quickly as she and Sarge could manage to the babes that still remained. She hadn't seen any others in the battle, but somewhere on the way home it occurred to her....
What if her other whelps had simply taken the other portals?

There was relief, as she finally caught sight of the cabin and limped on a little quicker. Her leg hurt a bit more than she'd expected, but, well, that's what happened when you hung from the arm by your own full weight from the jaws of a much larger canine. It'd be fine -- she already had a limp to it. If it got worse, she'd never notice.
She wondered how badly it would hurt if she had the full reign of feeling.

The relief puttered a little as she pushed her way past the door and scented only two of her children. Wendi and Selkie she'd expected, but the stale scents of Honor and Grim were a smack in the face.

No, she whispered, voice thick, pressing into Sarge's side as if to keep herself from toppling. Was... she supposed to search for them? Fucks sake, she'd thought the plague's defeat was the end of her being torn in several directions at once. She thought she would get to go have a normal sort of life. Be... happy, maybe.
Mythris kept laughing at her.
Nae m'babies. Wisp's voice warbled against tears budding in her gaze.

In the next instant, she was tearing off up the staircase two steps at a time, tail bristled and arching high.

Kobold, she called, not caring if she woke others, Lichen!

She skittered around the corner haphazardly, her white claws scrabbling desperately against the wood as she careened for their corner.

Màthair an' Vater are home, wee loves!


RE: You beautiful baby from the outside in - Kobold - 5/12/2026


" Kobold! " he jerked awake so violently he nearly rolled straight out of bed, limbs tangling uselessly in the collection of furs and leaves and other things that made the bed comfy, managing to catch himself with a startled yelp. "Màthair an' Vater are home, wee loves!" Màthair. he scrambled.

He had known something strange wasn't going on, even he wasn't oblivious enough to miss how long everyone had been gone. But none of it had ever settled properly into his head as danger. The world was strange all the time now. Portals happened. Dead things came back. Weird creatures wandered out of the woods. Adults disappeared and returned smelling like blood and rain and fear.

And besides, he and Lonán had hunted an opossum. And that felt way more important.

MÀTHAIR?! he barked back charging toward her full speed without a single thought toward the limp in her gait or the tears thickening her voice. He nearly crashed into her chest before managing to stop himself at the last second, claws scraping wildly against the wood tail wagging so hard his whole back end moved with it.

Ya missed everythin'! he bursted out. Me an' Lonán hunted an opossum! A huge one! It hissed at us an' everythin' an' then it pretended tae die but I knew it was lyin'. nose twitched furiously as he bounced around her legs.

Where'd ya go? Ya smell weird...Vater smells weird too. He wrinkled his nose. Did ya fight somethin' big? Was it ugly? Did ya kill it? the questions came one after another without pause until finally, somewhere beneath all the excitement, he noticed the way Wisp sounded and his ears folded back with a questioning look.

...What's wrong?

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