[Video] | Wednesday morning early

[professorwolf]

[The face that shows up on the communicators this morning, bright and early, is a familiar one that's been absent for the past week and a half. He's broadcasting from his living room, rather than out and about, and he looks a bit uncomfortable and embarrassed, but also oddly relieved. It is nice to be one's self again.]

Ah. Well. I appear to be my proper age and temperament again. Many apologies to everyone who had to deal with me at that age.

[He was not as polite as he'd be, now, that's for sure! What a nosy little boy he'd been... sheesh.]

Is everyone else who... changed, back to normal, as well?

[Because he definitely remembers Pepper being a bit odd in the same way he was, and Wes, and he's sure there'd been something wrong with Pietro on that network post he read through during the small hours of the morning-- after he'd woken up to the severely uncomfortable sensation of sleeping in child-sized clothing. At night, of all things.]

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[girlworthfighting]

I did not change, myself. But I'm very relieved to hear that people are going to back to normal.

[professorwolf]

So far, all I am aware of is myself, and my housemate Wes Jansen. Though that does seem to suggest others are likely to return to themselves, if they changed, as well.

[girlworthfighting]

I hope so. You weren't the only one that turned into a child...and then there's Luke.

[professorwolf]

Luke Skywalker?

[Lyall has been out of the loop since he was bitty, and there hasn't been terribly much on the network about it... just that he'd frightened Kaylee.]

Did he do something worse than declare himself not married to his wife, then?

[girlworthfighting]

He turned into the evil counterpart to his world's Jedi Knight, professor. He was nothing like the man we know at all, and he became very dangerous.

[professorwolf]

Oh. Oh dear, that does sound rather dreadful. Dare I ask what exactly he actually did that you know he became so dangerous?

[Because it seems like there's a story here, one he missed in its entirety.]

[girlworthfighting]

The word is going around that he might have killed someone.

[did_i_say_percy]

Welcome back. I don't think he caused any trouble. Er, you didn't cause any trouble.

[professorwolf]

That is a relief to hear, for though I do recall what occurred, I was a tad bit less concerned with the consequences of my actions. In fact, I seem to recall a certain young man who encouraged my younger self to climb a tree.

[did_i_say_percy]

There's nothing wrong with climbing trees, so long as you don't fall out of them!

[professorwolf]

And since I didn't, I suppose I shan't worry about it.

[Not that he's particularly worried, really. It's really more funny than anything else, at this point.]

I'm a bit amazed you all could understand me, to be honest. I recall sounding terribly Welsh.

[did_i_say_percy]

You don't, and didn't, complain about my accent.

[professorwolf]

Complaining about is not the same thing as understanding. But I suppose you do have a point.

[He gives the pup a wry sort of smile.]

[did_i_say_percy]

[Armand chuckles.] Different times, different prejudices, I suppose.

You don't sound like that at all anymore. [Granted he has no idea how old Lyall really is.]

[professorwolf]

I've had a very long time to train myself in proper English diction. If I'd continued speaking like that once the packs began to gain prominence, I'd have been laughed out of London.

[The only reason his Alpha gets away with it even a little, sounding as Scottish as he does, is his rank both within and without the pack.]

[did_i_say_percy]

[Armand frowns, a little confused at 'a very long time' because Lyall doesn't look that old to him, but he also doesn't ask.]

I suppose the London pack would only respect those who sounded English. [He sighs, having a little experience with English insularity while being foreign.]

[professorwolf]

They would have, indeed. I still have Channing sneering at me now and then for my last name, alone.

[Not that his Gamma really means it, after all this time. It's just habit. He shakes his head with a little smile, perhaps just a little bit homesick at the thought of the irritating but loyal fellow.]

Ah, well. I wonder what they'd think of me now. I'm hardly as proper as I ought to be, these days.

[did_i_say_percy]

That is terribly rude of them. It isn't as if you could help your name.

You're very proper by Verdana standards, though. [Yes, he's a little amused that Lyall considers himself not proper.]

[professorwolf]

Ah, but by Victorian London standards, I am positively gauche.

[He smiles, though. He's used to the more lax levels of propriety around here, and is sort of growing to find them refreshing, after a fashion. Not enough to go without a cravat unless he's shifted forms recently, but still.]

Different cultures have different standards. Even most everyone from the ship is from a very different culture than I.

[did_i_say_percy]

But I think you're still quite proper, proper enough anyway. But your London critics would dislike me for being French. As if we're depraved or something. Not all the French are insane. [He's using a very light tone to show he's carrying on with the joke.]

It is hard to feel so left behind sometimes. Also, computer screens give me headaches.

[professorwolf]

Apparently you can change the settings on computer screens so they are slightly less offensive.

[Lyall used to have that problem. He's learned to adapt, at least, though he doesn't use computers much.]

You are right about the French, though, in part. We do have a most famous young French woman who sells hats and fantastical inventions in London, a good friend of the pack's, or she was before the vampires had to take her in. She provides a find counter-point to our protestations of superiority.

[His perceptions of such things have been expanded a bit over the course of the past year here... he can laugh a little at his people. Just a little, mind.]

[did_i_say_percy]

I'll have to ask someone to show me that, then. I have to ask about so many things as it is. [He flushes again slightly, because it's still so embarrassing.]

The Englishmen I knew were always very interested in anyone who could make something pretty. The ladies, too, though oddly not as much. I don't understand that one entirely. [He did have a unique set of people to consider, most of the being the fops of the League.]

[herarrows]

I must say, I'm glad to see you've come back to yourself. Though, I apologize that you even had to in the first place.

[professorwolf]

It is a bit troubling. I have to wonder if it is connected to the other situation we discussed, or if it is merely an affect of Salvation's temporal engines re-engaging, or some conflation of the two.

[herarrows]

I don't think anything that I could possibly come up with could explain it. You would know more than I.

[professorwolf]

You give yourself too little credit, I think, Lady Selenay. You really don't know much less than I do, at this point, and what you do know you seem to make good use of.

[herarrows]

Practice. I suppose I'm used to doing as much as possible with very little.

[professorwolf]

A good habit to be in. It must serve you well, particularly when dropped on a strange planet with nothing and no one you're familiar with.

[He's teasing, just a little.]

[herarrows]

It's had its uses so far, yes. But then, it is one of those things that tends to come in handy.

[kettchmeifyoucan]

I can reach all the cupboards again.

[professorwolf]

I seem to recall you managing to open them, regardless of reach.

[kettchmeifyoucan]

It's still easier to not have to climb on the counters.

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[sociopathicwolf]

I thought something smelled familiar about one of the kids Armand was watching.

[That he helped Armand watch, really, but he doesn't want to talk about that any more than he wants to mention that he's changed back to normal himself.]

[professorwolf]

[Oh, hey, listen to that-- it's someone he actually kind of wants to talk to, too.]

Probably not as familiar as you'd expect, either, given the lack of any werewolf aspects. It seems I was not merely changed physically and mentally, but in all aspects-- I was quite human at that time in my life, so I was then, as well.

[He sighs lightly.]

Also, the compliment of my apartment seems to have expanded exponentially while I was not myself.