[end of the first day of the jaunt] Tell me baby, how do I turn my back on you, tell me how to leave

[finalizes]

Can we leave the immediate area of where any of us showed up safely?

And does anyone know or knows how to find out which direction would be best to head into if one wants to find the closest free wolf packs?

[When they arrived he figured that he would just stick with his pack and sometimes return to Liminal and it would be good, but he's already fed up with all the noise and all the humans. Plus he could really use some off-time from all this human-mind business. Just running with a wolf pack for a few days or more sounds perfect.

He just needs to find one and hope that it all works out.]

Comments

[professorwolf]

If I recall, er, there aren't actually many wolves in California... I think they were just reintroducing them, in my time, twenty years later. I didn't live here, though, so take that with a grain of salt.

You may find the wolves here a bit disappointing, though. They probably won't understand you, and they won't have... mmm, the same sensibilities you do.

[finalizes]

If there are none in California, where would be the next closest area that they might live in? [Someone is from Europe and expects to be able to blow or run everywhere in the wider area within the six weeks that he assumes the jaunt to last.]

They'll be wolves, not werewolves. They aren't supposed to be able to think with a human-mind. That is why I want to find them.

[professorwolf]

Laughs-at-the-Storm, California is... very big. A couple of countries that you're used to will fit inside it. You'll be gone for weeks.

[And he may be a bit dismayed at the idea of his pack splitting up-- so many of them are still themselves this Jaunt. He'll let him go if Laughs really wants to, but he'll be sad.]

[finalizes]

I have the storm form.

[Which is faster than a wolf runs, though it depends more heavily on what currents there are in the air already.

He'd rather not be separated from his pack for all of the jaunt, especially with how badly Gale is doing right now. But he also needs to be among proper wolves, or at least Lupi. People who won't think with their human-mind before anything else.]

[professorwolf]

[Lyall is silent for a moment. Then he asks,]

If there are wolves about, I'd say go east and north, into the mountains. They'd be there. But can you manage to wait just another day? Maybe we can do something, the four of us still ourselves, tomorrow and then run together tomorrow evening, and then you can go.

[He doesn't want to waste the Jaunt time together.]

[finalizes]

We could all go together.

[He would like that, and he can stay around another day for the sake of the pack. He feels like all of them could need some running with wolves, so it's not like it would be bad for them, either.]

[professorwolf]

[Lyall hesitates, tempted, but in the end has to sigh and turn the idea down.]

I can only change at night, by day I'm going to have to be human. I'd slow you down. But tomorrow we can go into town maybe, avoid the worst of the concert and do something together that isn't too stressful, and tomorrow night go for a run. Will that be all right?

[finalizes]

I would not mind slowing down for you.

[He's not going to push it, though, as much as he would like to - even if all four of them were to go, what if Hajime was pushed back into his own mind halfway through the jaunt, like Yakumo was last jaunt?]

Going for a run tomorrow night sounds good, though. [He's not sure if there is anything that can be done in a city that won't be stressful for him, but he'll tag along. Being with pack will be better than being without, at least.]

[professorwolf]

[Then they won't stay in the city very long. Lyall has a few ideas.]

Good. I'll round everyone up come afternoon tomorrow, then. That should give you time to, er, research a bit where you're best off going, I imagine.

[finalizes]

It will.

I'll see you then. [He's looking forward to it.]