Abby falls into the world of spirit. She quickly realizes this is not where she was just minutes before. She is alone, standing in a twilight world, with an alien sky. Wait, she was in a bus station? Confused you look around trying to orient yourself.

The pack enters in seconds, stepping through and are beside you in the next moment. You look upon them and they are still in their war forms, other then Yuri. There are slight walls around you, but they do not form a ceiling. As you look at them you realize they are comprised of webs, and tiny spiders that weave them. Movement catches your eye, looking down.

There is a small piece of newspaper that has collected a larger heap of garbage. It appears to be acting defensively toward a rat that is looking at it for a weakness. Perhaps it wishes to inspect the pile for treasures. After a half minute it stares up at you, standing upon its hind legs.

Who are you young one, the voice comes unbidden to your mind.

Greetings my friend, I am Sun-of-the-South and this is the Rats in the Wall pack. Many respects and thanks to you, and your mother.

Son begins conversing with the rat in the spirit tongue. Digging in his bag, he fulls out a clump of sugar and a piece of bread. He sets them before the rat gaffling in a show of respect.


[[occ: i shifted to homid form before stepping sideways]]  

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Whisper will cross the threshold of the mirror shortly behind Son into the realm of the Near Umbra, across the Velvet Curtain.

Looking down and this very perplexed and likely scared cub Whisper will shift back into his Homid form once again retaking his former appearance, Old green army jacket over his shirtless torso, tan cargo pants and barefoot, his cold peircing blue eyes vividly visible even here.  The only difference to his former appearance is the ring of glyphed stones around his neck, here in this place, each of the glyphs glows a faint green.

"You did well young one, for such a stressful situation you crossed the Velvet Curtain with little effort."

Whisper will place his hand on the furry arm of the Crinos form of the young girl standing next to him..

"It's time to calm down.."

He will make sure his pack is here, and that no one is following through their hasty exit and turn to the rest of his Pack.

Abby looks around, fascinated by this new world she had no idea existed. It's so beautiful, in its way, the spiders weaving webs, even the garbage the rat is going after.

"Umm..I am Abby. Who's talking to me?" she asks, a bit bewildered that a voice has just spoken inside her head.

A deep look of grief has consume Yuri. He is trying to hide his emotions of regret but he just stand their being as a mouse quietly going over the situation in his head. He look at Abby hoping she can feel the pain that is pouring out of my pore. He wonder how many will be affected by the lost of a single life. "I must play my role" it leaks out from his mind into reality.

 The rat seems to smile at Abby and nods to Son's gifts set before it.

"I am the brood Rat has dispatched to serve you, to watch over you. You are unknown to me. The others know me well. This one," motioning toward Son," always gives me the best things I could wish for. Do not worry, I request they take the best care of you. Guarding you as if you were one of their own. What has brought you over and why did you attack the weaver's child?" picking up a sun hat and tying it on her head.

"I think that might provoke her and I am in no position to help. We don't particularly get along very well. Maybe the quiet bug will intercede."

"You are a brood from Rat with a capital R? I think these guys are going to have to explain a lot to me," Abby says as she takes off her backpack, which is rather difficult and looks pretty silly in Crinos form. She rummages around in it, extra careful not to claw anything up, and pulls out a granola bar which she opens with her teeth, unwraps and places in front of the rat. "Here, have a present from me, too." She smiles back at the rat.

"Well, um, this guy explained to me how to get over here," she says, pointing at Son. "And these other guys rescued me, or something. It's a bit hazy. I've never felt so angry before. And this is definitely the first time this," she points out her form with a sweeping motion, "has happened."

She thinks for a bit. "Thank you for telling them to protect me, I have the feeling I'm going to need a lot of that. As for why I attacked.." She mouths the words "Weaver's Child," trying to puzzle out the meaning. "The lady at the bus station? Well she was trying to take me back to a medical facility where they were going to incarcerate me for study, I saw it on their charts. They were giving me drugs to...er..prevent my phenotype from manifesting, or something like that. It's called Developmental Neogenetics Amalgamated. My mom took me there because she thought I was sick, but it turns out I was...this? Oh, and what is this quiet bug?"  

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Whisper will lean over to this girl, her form still strange after she has calmed this much from the First Change.

"Young one, concentrate on the form you once held, two legs, fingernails not claws, hair not fur, think, and concentrate on the body of the young girl we watched over in the bus station.  Call upon the Earth Mothers aid, She watches over you even now, and can help you in such times. You are one of her children, She will not abandon you."

Taking off his jacket in anticipation of her shift back to a Homid form Whisper will wait and watch.  Taking in his surroundings, seeing all of Weavers works.

Upon removing his coat the others will see that Whisper is littered with scars.  The most prominent is one stretching from the bottom of his right ear to the middle of that same shoulder, and his back is covered with a large rake pattern of scars from his shoulder blades disappearing into the waistband of his pants.

Turning to the rat, he will thank him for his vigilance and for the watchful eye of his Mother as well.  

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"Yeah, umm, no offense, but I'm gonna be totally naked. Not in front of you guys, even with a jacket."

She looks at the rat. "Tell me, brood of Rat, is there a place nearby I could hide safely for a few minutes?"

"As you wish"

Whisper will sit down, crossing his legs, and rest himself next to Rat and replacing the coat over his scarred torso but not before essentially flashing the scars to anyone else present.  Whisper will sit, bow to the spirit of the Rat, and offer him a seat on his shoulder or arm.

 It accepts the treat from Abby. Looking at it with longing, but deciding to wait before eating it. She scurries up onto Whisper's shoulder.

"There are very few places here in which you are alone child, you are in the shadow of the world. It is composed of the breath of Gaia in all things. Everything casts its shadow here and embody all that is. I can journey into your realm, but it is costly and I do it only if my chosen were to need me. I cannot say if there was a safe place there. I do know that our presence will soon be noticed here. The weaver is watching, I can feel her gaze upon us. We must be gone soon, lest we challenge her wrath."

"Oh. More danger." Abby frowns. "I guess I'll take that jacket, leader guy, but no peeking!" She looks very seriously at Yuri and Son. "And no peeking from you two, either!"

As she grabs the jacket from Whisper, she grins up at the rat spirit. "You don't have to avert your eyes, since you're a girl and all."

She wraps herself up in the jacket as tightly as she can and slowly, one limb at a time and ending with her head, it would seem, turns back into a slightly frazzled, bloodstained, brown-haired teenage girl.

Wrestling with herself akwadrly under the jacket, she puts on underwear, a bra, a t-shirt and some jeans she had in her backpack. She's going to have to go barefoot, she realizes, as her shoes did not come with her.

"I'm gonna need to wash off this blood somewhere. Oh god, the blood," she whispers as her eyes widen. "I...I killed people, didn't I?" she asks, her eyes brimming with tears.

Whisper will quickly stand, the Rat still elegantly perched on his shoulder and go over and wrap his arms around this girl.  

"No child, your hands are clean, no one died today, at least as much as I could prevent it. You maimed...whatever that thing was that appeared to be a a woman.

If this had been the time for Your first Hunt then the Earth Mother would have deemed it so. You're time will come, but that time is not today."

Abby will notice that the jacket she was wearing carries the scents of Whisper and his pack, this would have been very noticeable to the child in her Crinos form, and as Whisper takes back his coat he will notice it now carries the scent of this girl...

"My Kinfolk named me Jason, but I answer to my Garou name Whispers-to-the-Earth, what are you called young one?"

"You mean, I hurt people, but I didn't kill them? I..I guess that's better," Abby says through the tears.
"But I didn't mean to hurt anyone. Well except for the lady from the doctor's office, I guess. I don't want to go back there and be dissected!" Abby wails and sobs as Whisper comforts her.

"I...I'm," sob, "Abby, and I don't have a Guh-roo name," sob.

She reaches over to pet the rat on Whisper's shoulder. This seems to soothe her a bit.

 "Don't worry sweetie, none o' these boys got one till later in their days. First they needs ta explain everything, then when you got it down mostly, you take the next step. Don't worry just yet bout all that," shifting her gaze to Whisper," What we do got to worry about is gettin out a here. Since ya'll are so set on waitin fer queenie herself, guess I need ta be showin you a way clear from here. How bout tent city? I like that place," as she scurries down off his shoulder leaping to the ground. She seems to be running at a good speed. There is no ceiling but the walls are somewhat high, looking very similar to the bus station.

She stops at the doorway to the bathroom," Jus like I thought, they's seein to her," now when I does what I'm gonna do you's jus follow, NO hero stuff," looking at the pack," I mean it, I'll be real sore if ya gets yerself killed."

Abby ducks out of Whisper's arms, wipes off the tears from her face, takes a deep breath, and follows the Rat, curious as to what comes next.

Yuri just keeps quiets and follow the pack. I head the advice of Rat because you can survive if you trust rat. a smile come to yuri face as he began to follow.  

Whisper will follow upon the heels of the Rat, quickly weaving when it weaves, dodging when it dodges, one can trust the Rat, She survives when few can, lives where few can live.

"We will explain all that we are able to Abby, and you will be giften with the name Gaia wishes you to have when the time is right, but Rat is right, we must get to where we can hide for a while...

..Tent City you say, I as always trust the wisdom of You and Your Mother, lead on..."

Whisper will make note to keep close watch over Abby, rather protective of his new charge.

Son stays quiet, his mind seeming to wander. He glances around at the strange terrain, sniffs the air and spits into the dirt. He trails in the back of the pack as the gaffling leads on.

 The rat stands looking around the corner for a second before you all immediately feel the draw and pull of her energies about her. The tingling in your bodies builds until you feel a strong release and the landscape around you begins to shiver and jerk violently. You seem unaffected but you can tell that those spirits in your near vicinity have all stopped moving.

She darts out quickly, with you following. You immediately see two large spiders, mechanical and perfectly symmetrical. They seem to have been in the proximity of the bus station area. The wavering must have disturbed them as they are currently looking a bit dazed and not concentrating on what is around them. You can see that these spirits are large, standing about ten to twelve feet in height.

The Rat darts through webs that seemed to define the walls of the building and is quickly running through the alleys and darkened streets of the spirit worlds manifestation of Sanfield.
One thing dominates the skyline of the Umbra, a darkened tower pulsing with large spiders, visible at this distance. It has spread its web over areas near it. Most buildings do not stand as they do in the material world here. The weaver having to slowly build it into this shadow world, but this building is tall, standing against the skyline as a digital monstrosity.

You pass bizarre spirits that you seem unable to define. You finally reach your destination in Tent city before she finally stops racing and allows you to catch your breath.

"Well that was real lucky, you all best be real quiet for the next few days. Maybe that bug can twist it so's you don't fall under her radar."