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Noah made a startled sound that was somewhere between a yelp and a growl as the owl he was grabbing became, very suddenly, a thin, pale man. He let go as Lawr lashed out at him and jumped back. Laz snarled in fury as claws cut into Noah, and briefly, hunter and weapon were in tight accord as Noah summoned. The bone-edged saw materialized in his hand.

Unlike Al, he didn't strike immediately, though. He said tightly, still furious, "I said get out. I don't care if it's through the window or the door, but get out. There's two of us and one of you and you decided to come in here and be an a*****e. You're not welcome." The question of how the hell the man could become an owl was tabled for the moment in favor of getting him out of their room.

HP: 40/50

Al de-bristled as soon as he realized it was just Lawr. "... what?" He looked at Noah and then Lawr again. There was only one thing they all seemed to agree on in this mess at least and that was that Lawr needed to leave.


Well, all but Nuru who still wanted a fight and was barking and snarling in Al's thoughts. He could almost hear the scrabbling of claws from the black dog thrashing about.

Tear him limb from limb, the weapon encouraged.

Lawrence smirked at Noah, snubbing Al now he he was no longer under attack. Something about the smug look said I know where you both live.

"Consider yourselves warned."

He moved to the window proper, glanced out briefly and then did what looked like a swan dive out into the night, only a dive that was followed by the flutter of a barn owl swooping back up above the line of sight of the window frame before it vainished off into the night, leaving only a feather which spiraled back into the room behind him.

Noah closed the window firmly, snapped the latch shut, and pulled the curtains closed for good measure, scowling fiercely. Al got a slightly confused look at the comment about Melvin. "Why would I tell him?"

He took the feather, holding it between his thumb and finger like it was a dirty sock. "I'd put it in the office shredder except I think it might break the shredder," he grumbled. "Ugh. Was that, do you think that was all about us sleeping with Mik?"

Noah leaned on Al, his eyebrows still furrowed with his irritation at the whole situation. It had gone from ridiculous to alarming to threatening, but even when Lawr had been threatening them, there was still a touch of the ridiculous about the whole thing. "I wasn't afraid of him," he said, still sounding a little angry. "What are we going to do about it? We'll keep the window closed. I don't think we have to do anything else. Mik dresses like he's young, but he's an adult, he can choose if he wants to hang out with us. Or do anything else."

He hesitated a moment, thinking things over. "The owl has been talked about on Twitter before and Lawrence has never spoken up about it, and I don't know if anyone else knows he's the owl.The way news spreads around here, you'd think people would know if he talked about it at all. So, so maybe it's a secret thing. If he gets snotty about Mik again we can remind him we know he's the owl and see if that's enough to make him shut up." Noah leaned his head against Al's. "Does that, um, does it make sense to you?"

"If we have to. And if I'm right about it being a secret, anyway. If it's not then we'll have to figure out something else to make him leave us alone." Noah sat down on the bed, plucking at the edge of his shirt. "I don't like how spiteful he was being about something that's not up to him, and I think he outranks us, which probably means he's stronger. So if he caught one of us alone he could probably beat us in a fight. So just. I hope the owl thing will be enough. Because I'm not going to just obey him," Noah finished, his scowl coming back in full.

"Yeah, he's kind of creepy. I'm not letting him have control over us." Noah ran his fingers through Al's hair, calming himself down slowly.

"I don't know," he said, frowning thoughtfully. "Something his weapon does? No, that doesn't make any sense, I've never even heard of a charge like that. Something else. I have no idea." He shook his head. "I think he just wanted to mess with us? I guess creep us out?"

Noah kept petting, and laughed a little, sounding sort of embarrassed. "I don't ... like to get mad," he admitted. "It just feels like, like I'll do stuff. But he was talking about things he didn't know about. I just, it pissed me off."