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[To the wolf's ears he can practically pick out each individual voice and most of them set his heart racing, a whine escaping from his muzzle. He doesn't know how to deal with it in this form, there was a pang of fear and anxiety in his chest, there's sudden popping noises as Drew forces himself out of the form and suddenly there's a bloody man crouching there on the rock, staring up at the bat with those glowing blue eyes.]

Matthew? The hell is this?

What does it look like?

[The bat laughing is probably one of the more unsettling sounds around. He stops circling to hang upside-down from a branch near Drew, just out of arm's reach.]

I'm just enjoying the night.

[Drew still can't help those negative emotions swirling inside him, he didn't like feeling afraid or anxious, he'd come here to be comfortable. This though, it wasn't comfortable to him and he was starting to feel the spicy smell that followed his... friend? Was something bad after all.]

Its kinda scary, man... you didn't mention y'could do more than one shift.

I can do three.

[The bat spreads its wings and swoops down, and he shifts back - not into a man, but into the six-eyed cat, to stand on the forest floor in front of Drew.

But then he drops and rolls onto his back, head upside down and blinking up at Drew, like a cat that wants belly-rubs.]

Relaaaax.

Three? [Drew looks perplexed.] What are you? [The question slips out of his mouth before he can stop himself, it was quite a rude thing to ask back home.]

I'm a rat, too.

[But then he realizes what Drew means.]

I'm just a shapeshifter, Drew. Nothing to find scary, here. That big beautiful wolf in you is much more frightening than little me.

[He stretches his exaggerated claws out like any cat stretching for attention.]

Edited 2015-08-18 00:49 (UTC)

[He still isn't quite comfortable.]

Oh yeah? Well at least my wolf is a good ol' fashioned animal that doesn't speak with about a hundred voices. [That's right Matthew, Drew's ears are sensitive enough that he can pick those out, there's no pulling the wool over this wolf's eyes.]

Your wolf doesn't speak at all, I gather. If he did, maybe he'd sound like me.

[The cat rolls back onto its front and stands, approaching human-Drew with a very feline saunter, his tail slowly swishing behind him. Those six eyes blink up at him.]

What are you so worried about? Have I given you any reason not to trust me?

...Somethin' tells me it wouldn't.

[But he wasn't so sure about that, he sits down slowly on the rock as the cat approaches, extending a hand as if he might stroke Matthew should the other man brush past.]

I guess not. Maybe I'm just bein' a little paranoid.

[If he were capable right now, he'd be smiling, pleased that Drew's guard is sinking back down again. But he's also trapped himself, as he really doesn't want to shift back in front of the werewolf; he doubts it would be taken well, given his horns...]

It's alright. I know how I look and sound.

[There's that grating, disconcerting laugh again. He does brush past, acting the part of a real cat, headbutting Drew's hand and walking along with his back arched for rubs or scratches.]

I usually don't tell people so early. You can imagine why.

[Drew wouldn't have so many problems or paranoia if Matthew just fessed up to being something more than a shape shifter. But that would be a discussion for another time. He let's his warn hand stroke across the cat's head and along his spine.]

Kinda jealous if I'm bein' honest, man... I'd kill to be able to speak when I'm shifting.

[Matthew starts purring as Drew pets him, and it sounds about as awful and creepy as you might expect. Maybe like a garborating dump-truck or something.

He walks along, turns around and does it again.]

Even if you had my beautiful voice?

[His hand twitches at that noise but he doesn't stop, his warn hand still nudging its way along Matthew's spine.]

Maybe not... kinda happy not soundin' like some kinda hell beast.

Hell beast! [he laughs, buffetting his head into Drew's hand.] I guess you've never met a shifter like me before.

[Good thing; he was running the risk that Drew would recognize him. It goes without saying at this point, but he still has to purr it anyway, almost gloating to himself. He steps up onto Drew's lap, shamelessly enjoying the rubs.]

Do you want to keep running?

With all the extra eyes hell beast sounds kinda appropriate. [He grins though, he's clearly joking. If only he actually knew that Matthew kind of was a hell beast. Instead though he just scratches the space between the cats ears.]

Its up to you, I don't mind... we can run, we can go back to my place an' smoke. [About which he seems rather eager.]

[Oh damn that feels nice. Oh yeah. He leans into those scratches enthusiastically.]

Sure, let's go smoke. You can carry me home, big guy.

[He laughs that awful laugh as he climbs into Drew's lap fully to roughly bump his wrinkled, hairless head against Drew's scruffy chin.]

[Drew raises an eyebrow at that. Be careful where you climb Matthew, after all its not like Drew has multiple layers of clothing protecting his bare flesh right now.]

You tryin'a call me fat or somethin'? [He scratches Matthew's head once more before moving to dislodge the cat.] An' like hell am I gonna carry your ass 'round like some kinda slave. You've got legs, y'can use 'em.

[He's pushed away easily but tries to get onto Drew again.]

Fat? [He just laughs.] Come on. Is it because I'm not cute?

You're cute enough, sure, when you're human.

[He smirks.] Main reason is just you've got claws an' I'm not gettin' rough with you when you're in this form.

I'll take the compliment, thank you, but don't worry; I may look like a delicate flower in this form, but it's all an illusion.

[He'd be smirking if he were human.

It dawns on him as he ponders over how to do this discretely - that is, shapeshift back and hide his horns quickly using blood magic - that Drew will probably smell the burnt blood even if the ritual somehow goes unseen.

Well, he decides, that's just a risk he is going to have to take. Explaining away such blatantly hellish features wasn't bound to go well when Drew clearly already suspected something, and for good reason.]

How about I meet you there?

[His voice distorts even further as he says that because he has shapeshifted mid-sentence; the bat is back, and he crawls probably uncomfortably up Drew's skin to get to "higher ground" for an easy take-off. Clearly, Matthew is not the most conscientious shapeshifter around.]

After what happened last time I'm probably never gonna assume you're delicate...

[Because had his body been capable of it, he'd probably still have the bruises. Except his eyebrows are knitting together with Matthew's next statement.]

An' why would we do that? [His teeth grit against the claws.] You tryin'a hide your naked body from me or somethin'? Worried about gettin' dirty here in the woods?

Good call.

[He winks, but it's really hard to tell, since his three eyes blink out of sync so regularly.]

Maybe I'm modest, Drew.

[He's not even trying to lie well, instead just passing it off as a joke from his new perch on the man's shoulder.]

[He raises his eyebrows at that, cocking his head to the side just to really show Matthew he's doing it.]

You, modest? Dude you fucked me the second time we met... you're about as modest as an exhibitionist nympho.

[He starts to laugh. It would be a hearty laugh if it wasn't so creepy and many-voiced.]

Right, well, you've ruined my innocence then, haven't you? I was a good God-fearing virgin before I met you.

[He dives off of Drew's shoulder with that comment, flapping wildly to catch air. Yes, he's genuinely trying to fly off without Drew. This won't seem weird at all, right?]

I'll see you at your place, casa nova.

Edited 2015-08-31 00:57 (UTC)

As if. The way you almost left me bruised wasn't even close to God fearin' virgin. You were practically a beast. [He rolls his eyes.]

We took your car here? [He blinks a couple times.] You're actin' pretty damn weird, which is already pretty weird considerin' what we've done so far. But hey, I'll see you there. [With that he drops down to all fours, within seconds becoming a wolf again, pushing that transformation a little faster despite the pain it caused.]

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