Warren really didn't have much of a reason to be out and about this early in the day. He didn't have any classes today, and he could very well be sleeping in at this very moment, were it not for the combination of restlessness that things said to him earlier in the week brought, and the fact that he felt claustrophobic as all heck, crammed into a little alcove like that.
"Morning," he greeted, nodding at the boy who was already there before pulling up a seat. "Expecting another hot one, huh?"
At the rate the day was going, muggy and hot as it was, Warren was half tempted to pull his own shirt off as well.
"My philosophy is to always be prepared for hot ones," Jake smirked. That and he'd just slept wolf shaped outside again. He'd just been too lazy to go back to the cabin and brave the stink. "I'm considering a move to the Arctic."
"If you promise to take me with you, I'll even fund the expedition," Warren replied, smiling faintly. "The great outdoors would be so much better if they came with air conditioning."
Warren didn't really get out much, growing up. It probably showed.
"Are you prone to random transformations into aquatic animals often?" Warren laughed a bit, shaking his head. "I might be right behind you there, too. I'm not much of a swimmer, but I can totally see the draw of the beach on a day like today."
Even if it would leave him looking like a big, soggy gull. It would be distracting, at least. And cool.
"I can do a lot of things," Warren mused. "Breathing underwater is not one of them, so far as I'm aware. I guess if the sea animals were growing legs and trying to come up into the sunshine to get out of the cold, it would be a bigger issue."
"Please don't tempt them," Jake chuckled. "We're at Fandom, they just might do that and then we'll not only be too hot, it will be stinking of fish left too long in the sun."
"And once again, evolution takes a back seat to hot summer days. It's probably for the best. They'd be trying to turn into dinosaurs or something, next." Warren gave his shoulders a shrug, reaching for a stick to idly turn over in his hands. "If there's one thing Fandom has taught me, it's that I'm no good with dinosaurs."
"It was during that fog," Warren replied. "I never did face down a dinosaur myself, but when that huge thing came stomping over the island..." He shrugged. "I spent most of that inside, wincing whenever it screeched."
And so he felt like a complete chickenshit.
"It was a little more over my head than those vicious gremlins that invaded. Those gave me a few bites, but nothing that I didn't heal from."
"Hell yeah," Jake said with all his lack of self preservation and that stupid sense of invulnerability that came with being a fast healing werewolf. It was kind of stupid. Okay, it was stupid. "Not that the small ones weren't a challenge on their own."
"Morning," he greeted, nodding at the boy who was already there before pulling up a seat. "Expecting another hot one, huh?"
At the rate the day was going, muggy and hot as it was, Warren was half tempted to pull his own shirt off as well.
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Warren didn't really get out much, growing up. It probably showed.
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Warren gave a dismissive shrug. He'd be able to find enough spare change for something like this between his couch cushions, if he had a couch.
"You can't tell me it wouldn't be worth it, when it's this hot already, and the day's barely started."
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Even if it would leave him looking like a big, soggy gull. It would be distracting, at least. And cool.
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And also? Weird.
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And so he felt like a complete chickenshit.
"It was a little more over my head than those vicious gremlins that invaded. Those gave me a few bites, but nothing that I didn't heal from."
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"I never did get to try that big one on," he sounded sorry.
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"You would have tried?"
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