video:

[charring]

[There's one very normal looking Charlie looking into the device with a small smile on her face. It's an entirely relieved look, as minimal as the expression is. On occasion, her hand will reach up to rub at her mouth as if she's checking that those teeth really are gone. Which she is. She has a quick message for a few people but isn't bothering with filters. Mostly because she doesn't give a damn. It's not like any of this is super secret personal.]

Doctor Banner, thanks again for helping me out with my ever so delightful diet change. Hopefully, I won't need it again.

Tony, do you want the clothes you loaned me back? They're clean.

How's everyone else doing? I was...concerned. [And yes, that was just as hard to admit as it sounded. She's just not good with caring about people.

The video gets shut off. She's done.

She'll be outside, wandering the town for anyone that wants to run into her.]

Comments

[bostonhowler]

... We should probably talk, later? I mean, to thank you for the help, and about... what I found.

[charring]

Yeah. I'll help you with dinner and we can talk. I feel like an asshole, by the way. About how I handled things at first.

[bostonhowler]

It's okay. I know... we all have our different ways of dealing. It'll be okay.

And I want to explain how I knew about... helping you.

[charring]

Okay. I'm in my room.

[bostonhowler]

[Brigid takes that as an invitation and taps at Charlie's door.]

It's me.

[She sticks her head around and slides in, closing the door.]

All back to normal?

[charring]

Yeah. [Try as she might, she just doesn't sound happy about that, Brigid. In fact, she sounds...uncertain. As if she doesn't want to be back to normal. She's fine, though. Really.]

You look like you again. Always a bonus.

[bostonhowler]

[Brigid can hear it, though she doesn't understand it.]

I don't know how humans do it. Everything was so flat and dead. I was constantly in a panic that I wasn't hearing something important.

[She settles on the edge of Charlie's bed.]

I never realized how much I depended on my senses until they were gone.

[charring]

That's usually how it goes. You don't know what you had until it's gone.

[Her parents. The Manders. Normalcy. What little she had of that, anyway.

Charlie curls her legs, knees under her chin as she watches Brigid.]

You have it back now, though. Bet that's a huge relief.

[bostonhowler]

I understand the humans in the pack better now. No wonder they never came and ran with us. They'd get lost trying to find their way around the woods!

[She curls up and rests her cheek on her knee.]