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[It's not quite early, but it's still morning to Erica. She heard Isaac making noise in the morning, getting ready to go work at Allison's (the Pet Store) and she just rolled over and went back to sleep. Then the sound of heavy panting wakes her up and she nearly screams when she opens her eyes to find the dark shadow of a wolf staring at her from the side of her bed. Another one has curled up at the foot of her bed. When she went to bed the night before, as far as she knew Isaac's shadow wolves were few. Few as in there were maybe three of them. Now, he might have made more before he went to sleep, but these seem different.

Mostly because Isaac isn't home and they're still here.

She gets out of bed and has the one following her around, but when she gets out into the main area of the apartment she sees just how many there are.]

Crap.

[It takes her a few minutes, but she's really not sure what to do. When she opens the door to see if anyone else is having the invasion of the Shadow Wolves, she thinks one (or four) of them slips by her.]

Crap.

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[She turns on the video - for the first time in a public manner. Erica definitely just woke up. Her hair (which there is a lot of) is piled atop her head and she's wearing pajama shorts, tank top, and over that (because a boy is staying in her apartment) a large t-shirt. She's more alert than when she had been this morning, but there is a definite WTF on her face.]

Just a heads-up... Isaac had these shadow wolves and I counted I think fifteen of them at first, but now I only count eleven... and I did open the door, so there's a chance there are some shadow wolves wandering around.

They don't seem ... [She doesn't want anyone to hurt them.] I mean, they won't hurt you. Unless you threaten them. [She thinks.]

I just -- [Hold on. HOLD ON. She has a confused look on her face.] No... get, get off of her. [How do you even figure out if it's a boy or girl?] Nope... off the couch and off of her. Now. Down.

[Apparently, that's just... weird enough for Erica to want to ignore it but unsure what's going to happen. If Isaac keeps that one around will there be Shadow Wolf Puppies?]

Anyway, if anyone sees them... just try not to, I don't know. Try to send them back here? [OH!!] Tell them to go home.

[Her head whips around again, hearing a crash.] That's not yours!

[The video feed moves a bit, as Erica moves toward one of the wolves. The POV is to the wolf and you can kind of see that he has something in his mouth.]

Give. [Her hand is held out. The wolf opens his mouth to drop a drool covered, slightly bitten up white wolf toy.] Not. Yours.

[And Erica's back. She looks flustered and tired and she's only been at this for.... five minutes.

She cuts the video and will reply slowly... as she tries to get these things off the furniture.]

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Mmm. Body control. I don't think I feel different though.

[Though, to be fair, Erica hasn't gotten much out of her powers even if she does practice a lot and she always feels a bit off.]

Have you felt a power surge before? Like, suddenly gotten crazy strong all of a sudden?

[ gotta see if she's at the beginner level or not! ]

[She lets out a breath of a laugh.]

No. Never. I mean, I've only been here a bit. Not very long at all.

Isaac explained that to you, though, didn't he?

Explained which part? The power boost? He left for work while I was asleep... so not really much explaining. There's some showing... as evidenced by the wolves.

No I mean, not the one happening now. The one that can happen to people whenever. Usually when someone hangs around enough they can get their actual power boosted and it's a permanent change.

That sounds familiar. The first few days was a lot of information.

Yeah, well it's kind of a shock sometimes. But if you get a chance to try out whatever's going on right now you might find out what's it like.

I might, once I stop messing around with the wolves that Isaac left behind. They don't have anything for me to control, so I'll probably just end up waiting until he gets home.

There's also the Citadel, too. People tend to hang around there trying out their powers. [ pointers!!! ] It's how I got mine up, since I've got energy lending and have to use it on someone else too.

Oh, that's helpful to know. Thanks.

How do you know Isaac?

Isaac?

[ the shadow wolf bumps into her leg a bit when his name comes up, and jo just kind of keeps petting it while she talks. ]

We met a while ago, when he first showed up in Asgard. The city's not as big as most people think so we've just kind of kept in contact.

So, you don't work at Scott's pet store, too?

[ snort ]

No, I run my own bar in the Thor district. I know Scott, though.

Oh. [She shakes her head.]

It's just everyone seems to work there.

Guess Scott's trying to keep everyone in one place?

[ makes sense. jo would do the same thing if her family didn't already all have their own jobs. ]

I guess so.

Thanks for looking out for them, though. I appreciate it.