Octavia Wolstenholme
Location: Kim's house - the gunshop
Interacting with:Kim
@Zhaliora
Location:Gunshop/house then hospital
Kim smiled at Octavia before walking out the back door. She tilted her head slightly and leaned up against the wall and took out her pack. She smiled sadly at herself. She didn't really know why she smoked. It had just happened. She took one from the pack and placed in her mouth before lighting it. Kim looked through the window at Octavia and waved before walking round the back, further away from the house. If it was something she would not do, it was smoke in or too close to the house. She walked down to a small stream and sat down on a rock. There was a ashtray next to the rock already set up with a few butts sticking out. She took a deep breath and sighed. It was just so relaxing sitting down by the stream and smoking.
Still tinkering around with the coding, Octavia's eyes shifted towards Kim. Leaving her to her own devices with the computer, Octavia took a whiff of the air. While her scent was no where near canine sensitive, she could still smell something tainting the air around her. It was a disgusting habit that she herself tried many centuries ago. In a different form however. It tainted the source. That was her belief. She couldn't stand being around the tobacco or nicotine. It ... didn't sit well with her.
After finishing another line of code, Octavia got to her feet after inputting another semicolon. Going back to her room, she retrieved another small vial from her bag. Unscrewing the cap, she downed the dark contents before capping it again and placing it back in its respective box. Taking her sunglasses after applying some sunscreen, she donned a long sleeve and pants. She applied sunscreen to the exposed parts of her skin and allowed it time to soak in.
Heading back downstairs, she retraced Kim's steps out the backdoor. It wasn't hard finding her. Octavia simply followed the smell of nicotine.
Minding the silence of her footsteps whilst being masked by the stream, Octavia lingered at the spot the nicotine smoke wasn't vaping to. She looked at the stream then to the ashtray.
"You're killing yourself. Slowly. You won't feel it now. Perhaps later."Kim smiled and took one final drag before putting out the butt in the ashtray.
"I know. But you never know when you're going to die anyway." Kim sighed and laid back on the ground, looking up at the sky and then to Octavia.
"I'm surprised that you found me here. This has always been my secret little spot." Her eyes went to Octavia's attire. Quite much on her for such a warm summer day. In comparison to Kim who was still wearing her nightgown. She shrugged and lit another cigarette.
Sitting down next to Kim, Octavia nodded to the ash tray.
"You'd be surprised how far that smell travels," she said.
"I've been told I've got quite the nose.""The only good thing about it is that I roll them myself. Cheaper and less danger." She looked out across the land in front of her.
"This used to be a tobacco plantation back in the days. Had been nice to grow a bit for my own use," Kim took a deep breath and held it before exhaling.
"I prefer pipes though, but cigarettes are much easier when you're on the move."Octavia contemplated what this place would've looked like in past. Untouched by human hands she surmised. Compared to the cities, Red Lake still retained much of its natural beauty. If there was a way to preserve this beauty forever, she'd certainly help in the effort. Maybe buy some favors to make this a natural preserve. Even that was temporary. When humanity wanted to take and use, there were seldom powers to stop them. Whimsical musings of an old woman she supposed.
"I've tried the addiction. It impaired my sense though. I wasn't really keen on continuing it," she said.
"But I'm an oddity perhaps. Many take to the habit. I just don't see the fascination in it. But, there are some excellently crafted pipes. I can respect the artistic effort.""I think it all started for me when I stole my grandfather's pipe. I had a fascination with the thing and knew what it was, and how to use it. He had prepared it one evening and I snuck in and took a smoke." Kim shrugged her shoulders and kept smoking slowly.
"I like that pipe still," she said and smiled softly.
"It's an old ivory pipe from Africa. It's in the house on my nightstand." She put the butt in the ashtray and stretched before she lay down again.
"Before you asked why out here. Well, mostly because this shop here, this workshop, has been the only place that I felt at home. Do you have such a place as well? Somewhere that feels home?"Home. What a temporary yet comforting notion. She had estates all over the world, but she wasn't exactly at home in any of them. There was something missing wherever she went. There was a time she thought she found. It was with someone she let in, but was soon betrayed for her compassion. No she didn't have a home.
"My occupation keeps me moving. Home's wherever my job takes me," she said.
"This is place is ... unique. I can understand why you'd want to stay here. No city traffic, pollution, any of that.""I see.." Kim said and smiles softly.
"I never felt too comfortable in the city. Too crowded, and you can't make a lot of noise or run machinery how you want to either." She laughed quietly as she looked up at the sky before a shiver ran down her spine.
"I just get this feeling...that something bad is going to happen today." She jumped to her feet.
"It's probably nothing though, but just in case I think we should remain indoors for most of the day."She started walking back towards the shop. It was rare that her feelings were wrong about something and she trusted them deeply. Kim walked back inside of the shop and turned on the cameras again before heading upstairs and changed her clothes into her work attire and headed out into the town.
The feeling kept bugging her though as she drove down into the town in her work van. The only good thing about it though was that she was going to be working indoors all day long. The hospital had contacted her yesterday evening about checking up on their security system.
At least this would keep her occupied for the moment as she drove up and parked outside. She looked through the back of the van and grabbed her paddie and a ladder from the side of the van.
Kim placed the ladder to the side of the wall before she started walking around the entire hospital, taking plenty of pictures of everything around and on the buildings. There were a few outdated cameras which she waved at while she took pictures.
"There are too many flaws here to even point them out," she said to herself and sighed loudly before climbing up the ladder and resumed her patrol on the first flat roof, pulling the ladder up after her before climbing onto the next roof.
She waved at a few people that were passing by, most looked quite surprised to see her. Even a security guard rushed out and started shouting at her before he recognized who she was and told the gathering people that everything was in order and Kim went about her business.
A few hours later she was done with everything on the outside and inside of the hospital. Even done looking through their security system and computer safety. It was getting dark now. Kim had gotten distracted quite a few times and updated a random flaw instead of just writing them down so she could give a cost estimate to the hospital.
Suddenly she heard people rushing around and on the security feed she saw ambulance after ambulance leaving the hospital.
"What the hell happened this time?" She tuned her radio onto the hospital frequency and listened in to the panicked calls that a wolf had attacked a group of teens.
"I knew today was going to end shitty..." she said and sighed and got up from the desk.
She left the office and walked into the main office and left a note on the chairman's desk, detailing the cost estimates for the job and started walking back out when she noticed a loose cable. An eye twitched and she walked over to it and studied it intently.
"Not only security that needs a checkup..."Kim cursed under her breath as she started mending the cable. If the place burned down due to faulty cables, her job would go up in smoke, literally. She could hear the rushing of ambulances returning while she was working. She paid them little mind as scores of teens on stretchers were rushed into different rooms and medical personnel following suit.
She groaned and walked into a storage area and started collecting lightbulbs and other items that needed replacing when the door was hastily opened and two women entered, one dragging the other along. They started talking about the attack, one of them saying she was a wolf.
Kim raised an eyebrow in the darkness before following after the older lady before turning the corridor and almost walked into three teens, and the girl from the diner.
"Oh, excuse me," she said and looked up before her eyes locked on their wounds, surveying them.
Location: The Hospital
Pat was furious about the reply she got from Vanessa. It only confirmed her desire to slap the bitch even more. She wanted to scream out that she and Riley were lovers, but that would probably end quite badly. She bit her lips and held her tongue as Vanessa exited the storage room.
She wanted to punch things, get her anger out somehow. She suddenly felt a chill down her spine as she realised what she was doing. It was so unlike herself. She was, let's face it, a coward. Yet she had acted this way. She had yelled; and she wanted to hit things?
Pat shook her head and slowly started walking back to the room Riley was staying in. She took a few deep breaths before entering and smiled softly.
"Sorry about that.." She looked towards Riley's parents before her eyes went around the room and looked at the others. This was one big mess all right.
She had no real way either of knowing what to say to Riley's parents, or the other parents for that matter. She wanted to rat Vanessa out; but who would believe her if she did? No one. Riley knew, but Riley would not betray her friend she figured. Even if she did; would the parents believe someone who was attacked by a wolf?
The situation was almost too much for Pat to handle and she was struggling with finding anything to say that would not sound crazy. She sighed and sat down next to Riley's bed. Since she was the only one awake she figured that would be the best option as she looked out across the room.