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Adventures In Living With The Mythical |
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A military veteran is adopted by a werewolf and brought into his pack. Insanity ensues. About "Life With A Werewolf" Life with a werewolf is a dramatic blog. As such the characters in this blog are not real but maybe loosely based on real people. The situations represented are not real but maybe loosely based on real things that have happened in my life. There are a multitude of ways to view life, this is simply one of the ways I have chosen to view mine. Updated Every Tuesday unless I can't or don't want to. If this is your first time reading this...start here: https://www.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/1040400-Welcome-To-The-Pack The first year is available as a compilation on Amazon Kindle: https://a.co/d/gBLLL7E Audio and print versions will be available in the future. My book, "Dreamers of The Sea" is available now on Amazon: https://a.co/d/0uz7xa3 |
| Werewolf healing is strange. Stranger than us regular types. Even stranger than lawn gnomes. Valyur's new girlfriend, Auburn is timid of humans. But it's understandable. She has a scar on her that she won't talk about. It looks recent, and probably from a human. So, I get why she insists on staring at our front door on occasion, or staring at the neighbors as if they're going to go on a lawn gnome smashing spree. The thousand yard stare is one of trauma and survival, not necessarily one of combat. I saw it in her, and understood it immediately. She'll talk if she wants to. Otherwise, we're here for her in our own capacity. A werewolf though rarely has a scar when they heal. And it's done so fast. I understand how a werewolf can eat so much in a single sitting. Crash's paycheck is spent in large part on food. The man is an eating machine. Literally, werewolves are eating machines. It's like magic, they can turn a paycheck into literal crap in a matter of hours. All of that healing must get it's energy from somewhere. A fast metabolism is the perfect place to start. All of that shifting must get it's energy from somewhere, too. That somewhere is going to be a huge portion of food. Meat. Carbs. And of course, hunting. Werewolves seemed to hunt when money is tight. I know they enjoy it, but they do it more when the paycheck is low. At least this is what Crash does. There are times when he eats with us, all he has is vegetables. What I've picked up on is this: he's hunting more then. Knowing Crash, the reason he just eats four or five potatoes and almost a pound of steamed carrots isn't because he's dieting, it's because he's caught and devoured wild game already. Or a wild mythical criminal that I probably don't want to know about. His healing ability and metabolism had me thinking though. Could a werewolf get something stuck inside of them? Would their quickly healing bodies have an object that was healed over? It sometimes happens with people. A woman gets a BB stuck in their backside from a jealous boy. As she grows older, the BB is still there, grown into the skin. Then the boy, now a man has a list of things he wants to make up for, and finds out she's a courtroom sketch artist and....okay, maybe that's "My Name Is Earl". What about those cases of people sitting on a couch so long, they've literally grown into the furniture? Okay, that might be a bad example, too. After all, Jerry Springer wasn't exactly the bastion of intelligent television programming. The smartest thing to come from that show was the Weird Al parody song. Though it was entertaining, I'll give you that. With a werewolf's high pain tolerance and quick healing ability, I can see a case where a werewolf could have a rock, or perhaps a stick or something lodged inside of them, and not even know about it. Would any werewolf have something like that? It brings me back to a memory of one of the first weeks I was here. Crash had that bite taken out of his shoulder, the tooth stuck inside of it. I was able to get the tooth out. Then he healed. His body was trying to reject it somehow, push it out. Perhaps that's how werewolf healing really does work. It sees the foreign object, and begins to push it out. What would it take to scar a werewolf anyway? I mean besides seeing me in fishnet stockings and a Marilyn Monroe wig? That'd be enough to scar anyone. I suppose that's not the kind of scars we're talking about though. But I digress. Maybe severe damage of a kind that would take a human body weeks or months to recover from with an entire team of doctors. Maybe it'd be something so bad that we couldn't see it on regular streaming platforms. Many of a werewolf scars are the ones that dig deep below the surface. It's scars that they hide with a crass joke and a smile. The type of scars that makes regular people wince, tear up, and pat you on the shoulder. On our recent vacation, we did see some of Crash's scars. It had festered in his mind as he attempted to forget and move on. Thankfully, we were able to get him to forgive and let go, rather than forget and move on. Cause, much like rocks, or that BB, things in our own psyche that we try to forget and move on from just lay beneath the surface and fester. Our mind and personality has grown over the damage, but never been allowed to push the object out. The only real solution, even for werewolves, is to dig it out, to push the infection out, and to let go. That's what I see when I look at most werewolves these days. I suppose it's why I can now identify with them. They are, just like me, a collection of scars, hiding from the world with a bad joke and a smile. Perhaps, just like anyone. I guess that's why some werewolves, like Crash, like Mitch, are more human at times, than many regular people I've known. |
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