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[ralliesprotests]

Good afternoon, you've reached Rowan Lewis at Gay Agenda dot Com.
Unfortunately it's no longer the 90s, so feel free to leave a message after the beep but I ain't gonna check it.
Text me like a normal person. BEEP.

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[untailed]

[...there's not much to say to that. Rowan does have a point. And also: It will probably be harder than teaching a cub to hunt, but she got this? Hopefully.]

You should have enough sex to get lupus form back.

[Because while she can teach him how to hunt in glabro, even homid... lupus is just so very much superior.]

[ralliesprotests]

[Okay, Rowan's sex positive, and extremely open about it, but they would have least tried to be slightly less utilitarian about it.]

And if I do, you'll teach me? [They go for the easy option, the eager question, rather than trying to explain to the lupus that they can't just jump into bed with everyone. Gives them time to figure out how to phrase it, anyway.}

[untailed]

Of course.

[If they want to learn, she'll help. She can't fix the general Glass Walker situation Rowan has going on, but she can at least help them get in touch with their wolf side a tiny bit more.]

For now I'll teach you how to hunt in Glabro, though. Can you find a trail like this?

[ralliesprotests]

[Nice! If Rowan had a tail it would be wagging.]

I can try? [They do have a lot of experience in Glabro at least, but the senses boost is so little compared to Lupus, and they're used to it.]

[untailed]

Try.

[Aaaand she'll take a step back. The forest is all Rowan's. Go forth and locate a trail.]

[ralliesprotests]

[So.

Much.

Pressure.

Fuck what do they even do? They glance at Silent nervously, before taking a few unsure steps and crouching down, trying to pick out a scent. it's much harder in glabro, and certainly not helped by the fact that there's too much new here (not that there wouldn't be at home either, but there's even less familiarity here).

After a couple more steps and some further exploration they do come across a scent that does seem to trigger something in them, and they attempt to follow it a few steps to check that it is actually leading somewhere, before looking back at her.] Here?

[untailed]

What did you find?

[She's coming over, but slowly. Name your find, homid, so she can know what you think it is before checking for herself.]

[ralliesprotests]

[Of course she had to ask.]

...I dunno, but it smells good.

[untailed]

...you really can't identify it.

[Can you hear her disbelieving despair about the state of the Garou nation and the deterioration of the entire species to have such members.]

[ralliesprotests]

[For sure can they hear it, but what's to be done about it. They shrug, lightly.]

For all I know it's something we don't even get back home.

[untailed]

[She comes over, sniffs at the tracks, and while it takes her a moment where normally the interpretation would be instant - the drawbacks of any form that isn't lupus, drawbacks that increase the further away a form is from wolf - between the scent and the looks of it she can hazard a fairly good guess at what it is.]

Rabbit.

[ralliesprotests]

[Rabbit is probably the one thing they should be able to identify, but they’re mollified by the fact that it takes her a moment to figure it out as well. They haven’t even noticed the tracks, just the scent, and they follow it a few cautious steps forward.]

Shall we follow it, then?

[untailed]

Yes.

[She'll let Rowan take the lead, for now - later she'll show them some tricks, but for the moment she just wants to see where they stand.

Aside from "not very far in".]

[ralliesprotests]

[They're still not very good at walking quietly through the woods, and they lose the trail twice, but both times manage to find it again after a bit of faffing around.

Not too far away from where they started, though, they come to a point where the number of trails increase, until they look around, confused, not sure which to follow. If they all seemed to be heading in one direction, they'd head that way, but as far as they can tell they seem to be all over the place.]

The burrow must be somewhere, but I don't know how to find it from here.

[untailed]

You're almost in homid. So you cannot do it like in lupus.

[She looks around.] Here. [The track on the ground is fairly visible to someone who knows where to look - many rabbit feet have crossed this patch.] Do you see?

[ralliesprotests]

[...Right, that makes sense.

Only they have even less experience hunting in homid than in lupus.]

But which way do we go?

[untailed]

Look around until you find a track that has shape on one end and drags on the other. The drag is where the rabbit came from.

[ralliesprotests]

So look for rabbit bums and follow them backwards, got it. [It does kind of make sense though, and they spend a couple minutes more shuffling around, trying to figure it out practically. It takes a couple of false starts, but eventually they pick up the trail again, following it backwards to what they hope will be the burrow.]

[untailed]

[And lo and behold, they do find a burrow! Not what her plan was, but really they're right, it's probably a better starting point.]

And now we find a good spot to wait.

[ralliesprotests]

Downwind! [Rowan practically barks. They know this one! Look! They're so good at this!]

...Which way is that?

[untailed]

Can you feel where the wind comes from?

[ralliesprotests]

[Rowan tries to concentrate for a moment, closing their eyes. But they can barely feel the wind in the forest (not that it would help them in any case).]

No.

[untailed]

Lick a finger from all sides and put it into the air.

Where it dries first will be where the wind comes from.

[ralliesprotests]

Does that really work? [They've seen it on tv, but they didn't really believe it.

Nonetheless, they give it a go, hesitantly.] How do you know in lupus.

Also, we need to be over there? I think.

[untailed]

Yes.

[...going to give the easiest answer that is possible.] You put your nose in the wind. [You feel it in your fur, you are just aware of it, she wants to say, but she doubts that that would help someone as removed from their wolf as Rowan is.]

Then lead.