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FILL: Vilkas/F!DB: "Lovers' Knot" 23/?

[(Anonymous)]

Miri grins. "Just like that!" she agrees. "It was...a long walk back. Part of me wanted to shove the fragment at Farkas and forget I'd ever wasted my time. I thought being a werewolf was a requirement to be a member. But then I asked Farkas, and he told me it wasn't. It really was just a basic induction."

"In the first days of the guild, I think everyone might have been," Vilkas says. "I think that's why the Grey-Mane family was tied so closely with us. The strongest of their children would join, and take the blood oath. And I'm not confident, but doing some basic digging for Kodlak, I think that's how their clan really got its name. It sounds like it was more of an open secret, back then."

"I see." Miri adjusts her pack on her shoulders, shifting its weight. "What made the change?"

"Practicality, likely," Vilkas says. "I think it'd be hard for a Jarl to feel confident running a strong hold or support the Companions with the constant threat of werewolves. And there are lots of regular people who can be strong, but might not be strong enough to withstand the ritual."

Miri nods. "I've been thinking about it kind of a lot, actually," she admits. "What I would decide, if I were invited to join. If I would say yes or no."

"Well, I don't think it's a decision you have to worry about," Vilkas says. "These days, Kodlak is against any new pups doing the ritual."

"Really?" Miri blinks. "Why? Isn't he himself--"

"Yes, and that's part of the issue for him, I think," Vilkas says. "He's getting older, it isn't a secret. He's still strong but even as a werewolf, that strength won't last him forever. He's performed a lot of great deeds as a warrior, and I think his goals have changed from when he was our age."

She looks at Vilkas, waiting for him to continue, so he does. "Kodlak decided a few years ago that he didn't want to run with Hircine," he says. "That's the big secret, really; that when we perform the ritual we dedicate our afterlives to a daedric prince, to running with the eternal hunt. But Kodlak..."

"He doesn't want to do that?" Miri asks.

"No," Vilkas agrees. "He's tired, I think. He'd like to be welcomed into Shor's Hall with the other warriors, sit and listen to great battle stories. Drink ever-flowing mead. The simpler afterlife."

"Okay," Miri says. "So...can he. I don't know, give it back? Do you give a thing like that back?"

Vilkas shakes his head. "I've been trying to help him, where I can," he says. "Farkas isn't one for a lot of reading, he has a lot of trouble with it. And Aela and Skjor don't really understand how he feels. Skjor craves the power of his other form, and Aela's a born huntress. They don't know why anyone would want to give it up, afterlife or no."

"Help him do what?" Miri asks. "Figure out how to get rid of it?"

"Yes. But apparently it isn't so easy," Vilkas says. "Kodlak is pretty sure, after the initial research we've done, that 'being imbued with the wolf spirit' was actually intended to be a curse. And that's why it's been kept to the Companions for all these years, so the strongest have to prove that they're both physically and mentally strong enough to be able to maintain the form without hurting civilians."

"That makes sense." She frowns, thinking. "Then...why does the Silver Hand bother hunting you guys down? If there's that small a number of you, and you guys are protecting a hold..."

"It isn't like we're the only werewolves out there," Vilkas says. "Followers of Hircine who take on beast forms crop up all the time. Some go rogue, and that's where the Silver Hand comes in." He frowns. "But they don't see the difference between using controlled transformations to help people, and being out of control, dangerous. Liable to attack."

Miri's frown deepens. "That's not fair, for one," she says. "To paint everyone with a broad brush like that. After all you do for the community..."

"Well, you see it that way now," he says. "But you've worked with us; become friends with us. I think they feel much the same way as you did initially--that if we're truly helping the community, our power and rituals shouldn't be kept a secret."