Oh by the way, one of the researchers there was so much like one of my old friends. He even looked a little like him. Nick, my friend was called. Man, he was crazy ... but just so much fun to be around. All through school he was the social butterfly within a select group of people, but he never actually realised just how many friends he had. We'd hang out a lot; I miss him now actually. Imagine what he'd say if he saw me now! He wouldn't recognise me! Honestly, being a wolf now and all haha.
This researcher was so bouncy like Nick used to be - the life of the party. But always could come down from his high to talk about serious issues when it was just us. I remember he used to get drunk a lot...because he thought it was fun. I only joined him a few times. Occasionally he would start out hyperactively happy, and end up crying on me. Ahh the craziness. I don't know, I think it's just the thought of that free spirit that I miss- here, it's all so serious all the time. Everyone is so old, that they act old and wise and 'much to mature for any of that'. I wish I could get Wedge to see that being older doesn't mean you have to stop having carefree crazy happy times...just to be able to know when. Ok that came out weird - I'm not talking about drugs, got it? Well not injectable/consumable ones.
Deep inside me I still feel that young zest for life and fearlessness of what other people think. Maybe that's just because I am still young. In human years, I'm only 23. I thought it was old, once I turned 21, but after listening to Wedge and Alastor talk about things like - when the English discovered Australia, and what they were doing at the time - makes me just feel like a child. I don't know if they are just joking, to make me think they were there, or if they were serious. Alastor is often serious, and he said he was only young then - a teenager - but Wedge made it out that she was already old.
Just how old is she? If she's being honest, of course. Which I believe, because I don't imagine her lying abotu things.
I'm thinking about asking Wedge to spend a day or so with Nick again - I don't know where he is now, but I'm sure I'll find him. It'd be good to look at my old life again.
...oops, forgot to post when I wrote this. Ah well.
Thursday, 30 August 2012
Thursday, 16 August 2012
Back from Witham
It wasn't really that intersting to be honest. I did a night time sweep of the buildings there to look for suspicious activity. I didn't find anything, except for some petty theives. Needless to say they picked the wrong night to go robbing shops. Wedge handed them over to the local authorities there and I was praised for my good work.
The lab itself was rather boring to me. Just a lot of chemicals and robotics here and there. Wedge looked at it all but that's about it... there wasn't any evidence that Methias had gotten involved in their research. But we did conclude that the latest victim did actually stray from the designated tasks that were set for each lab, which all but confirms Methias's influence on her research.
I can't remember what this lab's speciality was, just that it was different to the one in Redditch.
We're back in Sector Nine now, waiting for Julian and Alastor to return from Colchester so we can bring all the pieces of the puzzle together. Hopefully we can find something...since I'm getting a little tired and annoyed that all we're doing is following his trail of death. I thought we were supposed to be out there stopping it from happening in the first place.
I don't know, it just seems like we're spending a lot of time doing nothing. It may be just me, since I'm used to operating with a different perception of time. But I just feel like they're taking too long to over-analyse everything, and missing oppotunities to prevent disaster.
The lab itself was rather boring to me. Just a lot of chemicals and robotics here and there. Wedge looked at it all but that's about it... there wasn't any evidence that Methias had gotten involved in their research. But we did conclude that the latest victim did actually stray from the designated tasks that were set for each lab, which all but confirms Methias's influence on her research.
I can't remember what this lab's speciality was, just that it was different to the one in Redditch.
We're back in Sector Nine now, waiting for Julian and Alastor to return from Colchester so we can bring all the pieces of the puzzle together. Hopefully we can find something...since I'm getting a little tired and annoyed that all we're doing is following his trail of death. I thought we were supposed to be out there stopping it from happening in the first place.
I don't know, it just seems like we're spending a lot of time doing nothing. It may be just me, since I'm used to operating with a different perception of time. But I just feel like they're taking too long to over-analyse everything, and missing oppotunities to prevent disaster.
Sunday, 5 August 2012
Holiday
So we took a holiday! I loved it - the beach was white and sandy, the waves were perfect and the sun was warm and bright. Alastor taught me to surf - both as a human and as a wolf. You'd be surprised, but it's actually easier in wolf form. Needless to say I fell off countless times. But swimming was good - it's just as easy as swimming as a human. Except it's easier to keep my head up. Wedge really enjoyed being able to swim - she was under for ages. At first I thought she was drowning, and so I started to panic. Alastor couldn't help but laugh. Wedge then rose her head out of the water, seaweed draped over her head and dangling off her horns. Turns out Wedge can hold her breath for a very long time, and even breathe water if she has to. My response was just "Damn, that's cool." For some reason Julian and Alastor thought it hilarious.
One thing I hated though was the sand. It got EVERYWHERE. I thought it was bad as a human, but as a wolf - arg, it got stuck in my fur and grated against my skin whenever I walked. It was awful - since I was all wet, even the dry sand stuck to me. And of course it was a vicious cycle: I'd leap into the water to get rid of the sand, but to get out of the water I had to go through the sand. Apparantly this was also hilarious. I wasn't that impressed, but all in good humour. I think in the end Wedge lifted me out of the water, blew me slightly dry and left me up a palm tree to dry off.
Julian investigated the rock pools and things in the sand, when he wasn't sunbaking with Wedge. I didn't know how he could stand lying in the sand - until I found out about their rand removal device thing. I can't remember what it was called but I loved it. I would have loved it more if I had been able to use it the day before. But from then on I actually enjoyed the sand because I knew I could get it all off whenever I felt like it.
Oh and the most amazing thing - I got to swim with the dolphins! Seals, turtles, even a couple of whales! Wedge called out to the dolphins, and because they were part of the marine genetic experiments, had the intelligence to understand. There was one of them that could talk with Wedge (in dolphin-like language I think) which was why their pod (do dolphins have pods or is it just whales?) came up and swam with us. The seals were cool too, but they left early. They didn't like the tropics very much. I was surprised at just how big the humpback whales were. There was a mother and calf there - it was so cute. I got to ride the mother for a bit...so exhilarating. And seeing them all dance about in the ocean with Wedge was just brilliant.
Wedge really likes the noises they make, their 'whale song'. Julian loved the whales and dolphins too, but Alastor liked the sharks. Big surprise there. But honestly, I loved the sharks too. I was scared at first, but Alastor took me gently and we swam with them. The sharks must have been able to understand something they said, since they didn't try to bite us. There were all sorts- from little ones to huge ones. I didn't see any great whites, but Wedge said they stick to around Australia. I couldn't believe how gentle they were. I had always seen them as vicious killers, so thought they'd take my paw off if I reached out to touch them. Alastor did say to not go near them in human form, since it makes them confused or something. We fed them after we went swimming.
Last thing - we went to a reef, and saw all the brigth colours of coral and fish that lived there. It was amazing! So intricate.... Julian tried explaining how it worked, but I couldn't keep up. I did have some kind of breathing pressure suit on so I could have a really good look, so I didn't have to keep going to the surface.
Great holiday. But we're back to business now. Will post about it soon.
One thing I hated though was the sand. It got EVERYWHERE. I thought it was bad as a human, but as a wolf - arg, it got stuck in my fur and grated against my skin whenever I walked. It was awful - since I was all wet, even the dry sand stuck to me. And of course it was a vicious cycle: I'd leap into the water to get rid of the sand, but to get out of the water I had to go through the sand. Apparantly this was also hilarious. I wasn't that impressed, but all in good humour. I think in the end Wedge lifted me out of the water, blew me slightly dry and left me up a palm tree to dry off.
Julian investigated the rock pools and things in the sand, when he wasn't sunbaking with Wedge. I didn't know how he could stand lying in the sand - until I found out about their rand removal device thing. I can't remember what it was called but I loved it. I would have loved it more if I had been able to use it the day before. But from then on I actually enjoyed the sand because I knew I could get it all off whenever I felt like it.
Oh and the most amazing thing - I got to swim with the dolphins! Seals, turtles, even a couple of whales! Wedge called out to the dolphins, and because they were part of the marine genetic experiments, had the intelligence to understand. There was one of them that could talk with Wedge (in dolphin-like language I think) which was why their pod (do dolphins have pods or is it just whales?) came up and swam with us. The seals were cool too, but they left early. They didn't like the tropics very much. I was surprised at just how big the humpback whales were. There was a mother and calf there - it was so cute. I got to ride the mother for a bit...so exhilarating. And seeing them all dance about in the ocean with Wedge was just brilliant.
Wedge really likes the noises they make, their 'whale song'. Julian loved the whales and dolphins too, but Alastor liked the sharks. Big surprise there. But honestly, I loved the sharks too. I was scared at first, but Alastor took me gently and we swam with them. The sharks must have been able to understand something they said, since they didn't try to bite us. There were all sorts- from little ones to huge ones. I didn't see any great whites, but Wedge said they stick to around Australia. I couldn't believe how gentle they were. I had always seen them as vicious killers, so thought they'd take my paw off if I reached out to touch them. Alastor did say to not go near them in human form, since it makes them confused or something. We fed them after we went swimming.
Last thing - we went to a reef, and saw all the brigth colours of coral and fish that lived there. It was amazing! So intricate.... Julian tried explaining how it worked, but I couldn't keep up. I did have some kind of breathing pressure suit on so I could have a really good look, so I didn't have to keep going to the surface.
Great holiday. But we're back to business now. Will post about it soon.
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