Ruby idly nudges the ring, rolling it with her thumb; for a moment the shift in the grain almost looms like a full moon in the starless sky, before it contorts into something else.
"In my world people like me are sometimes called werewolves, but in stories back there 'werewolves'" - with one-handed airquotes - "are all sorts of different things, and I heard werewolves are something else here, too... it's a mess. The idea is that a person is human most of the time, and then around the full moon they change."
She pauses, then, trying to figure how to make it make sense. "The things is, I'm not human most of the time and the Wolf other times. I'm a Wolf and I'm human, all the time. I was born this way, and so was my mother, but my Granny was turned by my grandfather. I'm just... I'm a Wolf because I was born that way. Sort of like how mages were born the way they are, or how some people have green eyes or, you know, whatever, except green eyes aren't generally evil and dangerous just for being what they are."
Says the woman with green eyes, and she glances to the side in an exaggerated or are they? sort of way, before looking back to Anders. "Did... that actually help explain it at all, or just make it more confusing?"
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Ruby idly nudges the ring, rolling it with her thumb; for a moment the shift in the grain almost looms like a full moon in the starless sky, before it contorts into something else.
"In my world people like me are sometimes called werewolves, but in stories back there 'werewolves'" - with one-handed airquotes - "are all sorts of different things, and I heard werewolves are something else here, too... it's a mess. The idea is that a person is human most of the time, and then around the full moon they change."
She pauses, then, trying to figure how to make it make sense. "The things is, I'm not human most of the time and the Wolf other times. I'm a Wolf and I'm human, all the time. I was born this way, and so was my mother, but my Granny was turned by my grandfather. I'm just... I'm a Wolf because I was born that way. Sort of like how mages were born the way they are, or how some people have green eyes or, you know, whatever, except green eyes aren't generally evil and dangerous just for being what they are."
Says the woman with green eyes, and she glances to the side in an exaggerated or are they? sort of way, before looking back to Anders. "Did... that actually help explain it at all, or just make it more confusing?"