Stubborn Creatures

*Callisto* · 09-27-2015, 10:23 PM

Walk | Talk | Think

In an oddly succinct manner that was somewhat uncharacteristic for him, Jak nodded his head in understanding of the request she had made. That was good. No argument, no wheedling out of the task. It meant she would finally get to see for herself where it was these damned elusive plants grew and hopefully log the location away for later, when her stores began to run low and needed restocking. She doubted it would be too soon - what Jakart had brought was substantial enough - but given her history Callisto was cautious and wished always to be prepared for foreseeable problems, unwanted litters among them.

But...it was Jakart. He never seemed to lack for a question, particularly those thorny ones that were always so challenging to answer and especially the ones that Callisto did not want to answer. Rather than leaving the plant's significance to her, the trained healer, his endless curiosity made him ask what it did. The neutral expression she wore darkened suddenly under an irritable frown, her ears threatening to fold back against her head as she felt her agitation spike. He just had to ask that question, didn't he? Of course he did. She was half convinced it was his purpose in life, to question everything no matter how uncomfortable or difficult the question was.

How did someone even go about explaining that, especially to the one wolf that, since she was being honest with herself now, would be involved once the plants were used? She was silent as she deliberated, warring with herself until she finally sighed exasperatedly and dived in to a blunt explanation. "It's a contraceptive," Calli stated informatively and still somewhat irritably, "it's the contraceptive I took last season. It stops a female from getting pregnant." He had not known, though, that she was out of them, or that her season was nearing right around the corner. It had to be just coincidence that he had found them and brought them to her now without even knowing what they did. It was a strange, questionable coincidence, and Callisto was unsure whether it was right to tell him the plant's purpose. Would he be able to think of anything else when he saw her now?

It made her uncomfortable even to think of it. No matter how timid and shy Jakart was, he was still a man with a man's desires. Her discomfort grew, transforming into a new worry as it did. Would he still be able to control himself, knowing what he did now, when that time finally came around? Realizing the position she could very well have just put herself into, Callisto drew a step back, feeling her anxiety begin to rise and slowly begin to consume her. It morphed the look on her face, stealing away the irritation and replacing it with something akin to paranoia and uncertainty. And anger at herself for walking right into this. "I shouldn't have..." she began to say, shaking her head as she retreated again another step, unsure what she was doing. This whole situation that she had created, the potential danger she had just placed herself in, made her immeasurably uncomfortable and agitated, and being here no longer felt like something she wanted to do.

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