Day 90; Video 003

[bostonhowler]

[The breeze pushes her heavy hair behind her. She takes a deep breath and then puts a smile on for the camera. It's tentative, but there.]

I owe apologies. Quite a few of them. Riley, Charlie, St. Raphael, Derek....

[She pauses.]

Dilandau.

I had some personal trouble recently and lashed out at those that didn't deserve it. I apologize for not being able to keep my temper and for not explaining anything.

[Another pause.]

And for still not explaining anything.

I just... Please accept my apology. For those that don't wish to, [Dilandau] I understand.

I'm going to be staying at the lighthouse a bit, I think. I need the perspective and if something happens again, there won't be anyone to take the brunt of it. Except some seagulls, but they're usually pretty forgiving.

Comments

[bostonhowler]

[Brigid smiles a bit sadly. Anyone that marries in manages to pass the test. Honestly, it’s a miracle that their pack is as large as it is.]  

They're easily bribed. A bit of ice cream, some chocolate, cartoons and they love you for a while at least.

[undomesticated]

All you need is long enough to slip away, right?

[She grinned, thinking about some of the kids she'd wound up babysitting while visiting other shifter groups.]

[bostonhowler]

Nah, just long enough to remind them that you control the ice cream and the TV. Then, they usually settle down pretty quickly.  

[She smiles. Her pack feels further and further away, every day she stays here.]

[undomesticated]

That's sort of a kid thing in general, though. Not just a shifter thing.

[bostonhowler]

[Brigid wrinkles her nose.]

I'm so used to the pack that I sometimes forget that other people aren't in one. It's... weird sometimes.

[undomesticated]

Don't you spend any time outside of the pack? What about school? Or just hanging out?

[bostonhowler]

Not really. I stick to myself at school, since I’m usually too busy to hang out much. And my best friend decided to go to the opposite coast for school. So… no, not really?  

[Brigid’s comfortable with that, too. She knows what it sounds like, but really, she’s comfortable with where her life is at right now.]

[undomesticated]

Busy doing what?

[She'd visited friends at school, but she'd never attended the rigorous classes herself, having been homeschooled by her mother. Even then, she still got regular breaks during the day and would sometimes 'forget' that she was supposed to come back during them. It was easy to get distracted in the wild.]

[bostonhowler]

Well.  

[Brigid ticks them off on her fingers.]  

I have a full course load for a double major. Then, I have my job, helping out the Alpha and the translations for the bestiary that he wants done. Plus, since my school doesn’t offer it for credit, I have Gaelic classes three times a week. Then, there’s church and volunteering there, I also help out in the nursery on Sundays. I also volunteer as a Big Sister, for Big Brothers, Big Sisters through the church, and that’s usually an afternoon or two a week. Why?  

[She sees nothing wrong with being this busy.]

[undomesticated]

So... a lot of volunteer stuff.

[Nothing wrong with being busy, but she never fully understood trying to cram as much as possible into the hours of the day that didn't exist. But hey, it wasn't her life.]

[bostonhowler]

Not really. The church is once or twice a month, outside of the nursery, and Big Brothers Big Sisters is once or twice a week.  

[Brigid shrugs. She doesn’t find it burdensome.]  

But I work more than thirty hours a week at my job and with homework and everything, I tend to be very busy.  

[She’s also on the Dean’s list.]

[undomesticated]

Don't you take any time for yourself, though?

[Riley hadn't even peeked at colleges yet, something her mother was actually kind of pissed about.]

[bostonhowler]

My time for myself is cooking, or doing the translations. I like doing things like that.

[Brigid doesn't understand this 'time for yourself' stuff. She doesn't do anything she doesn't like to, except homework.]

[undomesticated]

Translations?

[Color her curious, Brigid.]

[bostonhowler]

Translations. Most of the pack books are in Gaelic, since we’re all Boston Irish. So, I’m translating them into English, so that others can read them.  

[No big deal.]

[undomesticated]

Yeah? Maybe you can give me a few lessons. I always liked the sound of Gaelic, but we never stayed in Ireland long enough for me to pick any of it up.

[bostonhowler]

[Brigid bites her bottom lip and has to go over it in her mind several times before figuring it out.]

Is féidir liom iarracht a mhúineadh agat.

I can attempt to teach you? I read it better than I speak it.

[undomesticated]

Really? That would be kind of neat. You, um, interested in learning another language in return? I'm best with Portuguese and Afrikaans, but mom kept trying to cram French in there too.

[Her ear always love to hear the sound of Gaelic, the words always sounding melodious to her.]

[bostonhowler]

[Brigid smiles and shakes her head.]

Thank you, but no. I've got to get fluent in Gaelic. It'll help me a lot in what I want to do: transcribe ancient Irish myths and legends.

[undomesticated]

You mean for a living? Huh...

[And here Riley still didn't even know what she wanted to do for a career.]

[bostonhowler]

Teaching would be my living. I'd translate the old mythologies to use as teaching aids and for fun.

[Why not?]

[undomesticated]

Yeah? If we were out of here, I'd get you to talk to my mom. She's the one that homeschooled me and my brothers and tried getting me to learn French. My not picking it up that well is my fault, not hers.

[It hadn't crossed her mind. She was supposed to go out for her year of wandering before she decided anything. So she'd been living that to the letter.]

[bostonhowler]

Really? I wanted to try homeschooling but Da said no. He worked too much and the Alpha's wife refused. I thought it would be better than dragging around all the books all the time.

[Weird.]

[undomesticated]

We moved around too much for us to settle in school, not to mention that we changed countries a lot. Mom thought it was best if we had a consistent schooling regiment.

[Welcome to werecat thinking.]

[bostonhowler]

See; I just wanted to do it because I hated the history classes at school. When I got to start university classes in junior year that was completely different, since I could take courses that didn't treat me like an idiot.