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[captainryan]

The full moon is steadily creeping up again, thus Captain Ryan is much more comfortable outdoors than in. Of course that doesn't mean he's just standing about out there. You'll find him over near the pells beating out a steady wood-on-wood tattoo.

He's been there awhile.

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[scaredbybook]

There's a smoky PMPH from the forest. Kira comes scooting out shortly afterwards, coughing.

She smells a little like smoke and, for some reason, wet lichen. Thankfully, her spell ingredients were mostly consumed before they went up, and now she has to buy more. Oh, sigh.

[captainryan]

Coughing is loud enough to grab his attention, and he stops to watch the person emerge from the woods. Kira smelled like smoke the last time they spoke/threatened each other's lives, so that's nothing new.

"If you're that desperate to blow yourself up, I would be only too glad to assist you," he growls, scowling and tapping the sword against his leg. He's not happy to see her. Can she tell?

[scaredbybook]

Meep?

MEEP.

However, Kira did not survive vampires and a witch smacking her into a wall and airplane turbulence and several severe cases of jetlag to get squished by a werewolf with a stick. A little bit of defiance stirs, and is promptly thwarted by Kira's naturally submissive attitude.

"I don't want any help."

It is worth noting she also looks faintly betrayed.

[captainryan]

"Really? You seem to be doing a rather lousy job of it." There's more growl now, and he doesn't trust himself to start on the pells again. He really doesn't want to have to shape another wooden sword.

[scaredbybook]

"You're not a witch. You don't know." She's backing away now, without the scent of panic but with the air of something that really wants to disengage. She doesn't want to get too far from the bar. "And I didn't do anything to you."

[captainryan]

"Except show, time and time again, that you are an incompetent moron." His eyes track her movement and his lower lip's pulled away from his teeth, but he makes no move to follow her. That may change.

[scaredbybook]

"What?" Kira gawks for a moment, actually stopping, and then keeps moving. Although she does go all squeaky and a bit speedier in backing away. That's the combined forces of stress and indignation.

Plus he's getting lip-movey and he might get snarly next and then she'll have to. . . scream. Or something. "I've met you what, twice? And I helped you! Unincom--competently!"

[captainryan]

Ryan gives her a look of disbelief. The one that conveys the message, 'you're insane, aren't you?' "You helped me?" he asks, nearly laughing before going absolutely stock still.

See, Ryan doesn't have access to his memories from when the moon is full unless he purposefully reaches for them, or something brings them up. Needless to say, he's had no desire to remember his time as a puppet, and nothing's brought up that first night since then. This is really the first time he's being exposed to a memory of wolf puppetry.

Kira saved him from the demon rabbits.

[scaredbybook]

The crazy werewolf is lots of making faces at her and then freezing up, quite possibly in the moment before the berserker lunge.

MEEP!

"Yes! -I think?" She's only 95% sure, and thus still retreating. "You don't know me and you don't have to be so creepy!"

Unfortunately for the revolutionary mood, this is where she backs over a fallen branch that turns underfoot. She half-falls into a young fir, removing further contributions to the conversation for just a moment.

[captainryan]

Ryan's still gong over the memory, his facial features going rather flat and neutral. Kira picked him up. Kira ran him inside. Kira restuffed him, sewed him up, and dried him out, with help from several other people.

He owes her.

"I am not 'creepy'," he says somewhat reproachfully as he draws himself up into an at ease position, sword and hands behind his back.

[scaredbybook]

Will this impress a young witch pulling twigs from her hair? "You are so! You stare, growl, do. . . lip things, act scary, offer to blow people up, and eat lunch on rocks!"

Survey says: NO.

[captainryan]

...having lunch on a rock is creepy? Kira!logic is making Ryan's brain hurt.

He's just going to ignore the last part. Most of the rest of it can be explained by the fact that he's a werewolf, which she must know or at least figured out. So he tilts his head to address the remaining 'creepy' thing.

"I thought you were trying to blow yourself up," he points out in what amounts to an innocent tone of voice. Innocent for him, anyway.

[scaredbybook]

It impressed itself on Kira very much that she tried to deal with a terrifying opponent and he just had lunch. And, like a collection of glassy-eyed dolls originally owned by little girls with names starting with B, that it can be explained doesn't mean that it's not creepy.

"No. I'm working. I'm a witch, I do spells, they go wrong sometimes." She has ceased backing away, since there's only so far you can go without having to raise your voice.

[captainryan]

"Which is when they become attempts to incinerate yourself." Ryan is looking extremely unimpressed by this.

[scaredbybook]

"I haven't set everything on fire!" She refrains from getting squeaky with indignation this time. "I've smudged my ingredients a few times and blown up a shrimp. There was only fire once."

[captainryan]

Ryan gives her a disbelieving look. "Then why do you smell like smoke now?"