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Okay. Okay.

[York's voice is the soft but urgent hiss of someone who's freaking out but doesn't want to alarm the people around him. The sound quality, for those sensitive to that sort of thing, indicates that he may have, you know. Locked himself in the bathroom. As one does.]

Can I lodge a complaint? I dunno who to, exactly, but I'da hoped this would be the kind of thing that got covered in the rookie's field manual as early as possible.

[He pauses.]

Turning into a werewolf, I mean.

[The pause is practically italicized. Whatever's happening to York, he is strenuously unhappy about it, and the tension rides his voice hard.]

Like, the fact that that's apparently a real possibility in this universe.

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HELLO YORK
GREETINGS YORK
BONJOUR YORK

INPUT QUERY TARGET YORK

WHAT IS A
W E R E W O L F

WHERE WOLF
THERE WOLF

???

Oh, man, Zack. Hey, dude. Uh, how do I explain this.

[He sighs and takes a moment to rub his face. Someone is knocking on the bathroom door, but he ignores the sound for now.]

Well, do you know what a wolf is, first off?

I didn't know that was possible here, either.

The signs so far point to 'yes.'

[He's a little bit stressed.]

I've been here for a year and I've never...

[Okay, maybe it's not smart to argue about this.]

Don't you have to be bit by a wolf to turn into a werewolf? That's how it goes in the movies.

[Which he watches from behind his hands.]

UM
UM UM UM

YES

A WOLF
IS LIKE A
M I G H T Y E N A !

I HAVE HEARD A STORY ABOUT ONE

I was bit by something, anyway. Wouldn't really call it a wolf, but, well, who the hell knows anything about any of the creatures here.

["York!" comes someone's muffled voice between insistent knocking, but he continues to pay no mind.]

But, man, this's never happened to anyone else, all this time you've been here?

No, I've been here for a year and haven't heard of anything like that before.

[...]

Pokemon attacks seem to have gone up, though. I don't really know what that could mean, though. I... don't think the two incidents could be connected, though.

That sounds too much like a horror movie.

Okay, yeah, I think that's close enough. A werewolf is like a part-human, part-Mightyena guy who runs around at night without a shirt on and howls at the moon and stuff, and also I think I'm turning into one.

Dude, you don't know horror until you've seen what I had to wake up with this morning. I--hold on, Carolina, I'm a little busy in here!

[He settles back down with a short growling noise that he immediately swallows down. To hide his alarm, he tries to go for a joking tone but overshoots to 'horrified laughter.']

But, hey, it's the right time of year for bad horror cliches, i'nt it? Ahahaha.

[He's quiet for a moment, and then:]

Maybe you should go to the PokeCenter? I know they treat people there, too.

Did this really start after you got attacked by something?

!!!

Y O R K
ARE YOU THE BIG BAD WOLF ???

BE VERY CAREFUL
A N D
DO NOT GO NEAR GRANDMA

. . .

. . . . . .

Q U E S T I O N

DO YOU HAVE A
F E V E R

Are you kidding? Like hell I'm going anywhere while I look like this.

But yeah, there was a...I don't know what it was. I've only been here 'bout a month, I don't know all the local fauna yet.

[At the very least, the message gets York to laugh, even if it's only into his hands.]

Oh, man. Ten-four, dude, and don't worry, no grandmas for me. But believe me, a fever was the first thing I checked for, and no dice. --I mean, I don't have one.

I have a tail.

[If only this were some kind of fevered delusion.]

[Well, he tried.]

Pokemon don't usually just attack people without warning. Something weird is going on here.

And the ones attacking people look like hybrids. I got attacked, too, so I don't really know what to think.

THAT IS VERY GOOD !

WE WERE VERY WORRIED
WHEN THIS HAPPENED
TO HELLO DETECTIVE

WE STAYED UP ALL NIGHT !

BECAUSE
HE WAS VERY SICK

[His vanity is at stake, here, dude.]

Shit, man. You mean like the ones people've been talking about all over the comms? Did it bite you?

Did he turn into a werewolf?

...Who's "Hello Detective," anyway? A friend of yours?

HE GREW SPINES
AND SHARP TEETH
AND DID NOT LIKE THE RAIN

AGENT COOPER WAS JULEE'S
T R A I N E R

BEFORE HE LEFT

. . .

JULEE IS MY
G I R L F R I E N D

SHE IS VERY PRETTY

[Oh my god. Okay. York is in the middle of a furry crisis here, and also it sounds like Agent Cooper has some kind of serious medical problem, but holy fuck does he ever want to hear about Zack's pretty girlfriend. This sounds amazing.]

Hey, I didn't know you had a girlfriend! Congratulations, man, I bet she's a real catch. Obviously she's got great taste, going steady with a bright kid like you.

It didn't bite me, no, but it scratched me up pretty badly. I'm not sure what it means, but I don't think it can be good.

Something strange happened last year around this time, too.

Dude, strange how? Strange weird, or strange dangerous? Because this could go either way with how many people are getting attacked.

YES
YES YES YES

JULEE IS A
C H A T O T !

I HEARD HER SINGING
ON THE GEAR

DAM DA DAM

IT WAS VERY
P R E T T Y

JUST LIKE HER

[This is so cute.]

So did you talk to her first? I hope you led with a good pick-up line. Pick-up lines are important.

UM
UM UM UM

N O

BECAUSE
I WAS SHY :(

B U T
THEN I WROTE HER A SONG !!!

AND
AGENT COOPER HELPED ME
TALK TO HER

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