Brotherly Love (Kane.)

[Diana Crow]

No one told me, the right way to go about this.

“Kane? Hi! Yeah, why aren’t you at The Holey Place right now?” She paused listening to him. God, it had been a lifetime since she last saw her brother. Well, half brother. But she actually wanted to spend time with this brother, and well, she supposed he needed someone to force him out once in a while.

“Oh come on! I’ll even buy you a doughnut. Yes, one with sprinkles. No, I don’t care if you don’t like sprinkles.” Someone at this establishment was going to think she was crazy, sitting at one of the tables and barking into her phone like she was trying to win a lawsuit. Oh well, she had bought her latte fair and square. “Ten minutes, you promise?” She asked, a winning grin on her face.

She couldn’t wait to see him.

[Kane Woonren]

Kane had actually said only a few words over the course of the conversation, almost none of them what Diana was really responding too. "Why were we meeting there again?" was really what he'd said to prompt the doughnut talk. He'd mostly been talking because his apartment was clear on the other side of town. Sure flying actually made it a rather short flight, and his apartment was actually high enough for him to start a flight off of, but it was still took a bit. He was real careful with where he took off from, he'd rather spend an hour finding the right place than do a nice swandive off of a small building and onto a car. Or the pavement.

The fact that she could actually understand him while he was flying would have been a minor miracle, sure he'd hovered for a few seconds in mid-air but he'd still been subject to quite a bit of wind. He landed a bit away from the bakery, his wings retracting into his back as he did. His tail twitched in fear and irritation, not wanting to be pulled back up either. He decided to not do that for the moment. He pulled back on his shirt, the long dragon-ish tail swaying behind him. He walked over, being careful not to hit anything or anyone with his tail (and ignoring several stares in the meantime), and walked in.

He ducked his head under the door frame, getting a couple of prolonged stares from a couple of patron due to the combination of his height and the fact that he had a lizard's tail protruding from his lower back. Not a common sight, even in a city like Pilot Ridge. He spotted his little sister in the corner and walked over, "Hello there," he said with a smile.

[Diana Crow]

Diana reasoned and Kane could get here just as easily and comfortably as anyone else. She wanted to go to the Doughnut place because it seemed like a good idea and she liked being around a lot of people. She knew Kane didn’t like being around a lot of people, for multiple reasons, but he just needed a small push out of his rather large shell, and she would only be too happy to administer said push.

His appearance didn’t bother her in the slightest like it did everyone else. Sure D was used to it, but she also wasn’t someone who judged people based on how they looked. And if anyone gave her brother hell, well, she’d show them how to get there.

“Kane, seriously,” she said, standing to give him a big hug, “it’s been way too long. We live in the same town for god’s sake!” Diana laughed and sat back down, smoothing out her skirt before she did so. “How’s the cooking gig?” She asked, cupping her head in her hand. There were a couple of students she had to ask him about.

“Oh!” She said suddenly. “I promised you a donut, so you better pick one before I change my mind.”

[Kane Woonren]

Kane smiled and returned the hug to his little sister. "Our schedules don't mix too well. I work at a school, you work at a bar. I work weekdays and on weekends you're busy. But it has been too long since we've actually sat down together," he said with a nod. He wasn't making excuses, or at least not trying to anyway. He tried for a second to sit down in a way that was even remotely comfortable for him in the chair, before just turning it sideways and sitting in it that way. Maybe he'd start bringing his own chair for when he went out places. All he needed was one that comfortably fit a 7'4" man with a lizard tail and dragon wings.

"It's... fine," he said, trying not to think about one of his classes for the moment. He was going to keep more fire extinguishers than cooking supplies in the cooking lab. Still, he wasn't going to bring things like that up, it was mildly terrifying to think about. He was fairly sure that a couple of them might actually manage to burn down Hammel by the end of the year. Or at least him.

He looked over at the doughnuts at the prompt. "No thanks, I'm not really hungry," he said with a simply. "How have things with you been?" he asked. He didn't really get out much, but he'd stopped by her bar a couple of times. At least barstools were a bit of a match for his body type.

[Diana Crow]

“Well today’s your lucky day, usually I have my day planner all filled up,” she smirked. Like she even had a day planner. Diana wasn’t mad or upset for even a second, she was just glad they were here now. The young woman had changed her size into one that was still above average for a woman, but more comfortable when around Kane. No one likes kinks in their necks.

Diana rolled her eyes. “I’m not trying to be your mother Kane, you can actually tell me these things. ‘It’s fine’ is too vague,” she said, giving him a wave of her hand to go on with the subject. She had to find out more about Kyle, that was if Kane knew anything at all. Perhaps she’d make a fair teacher, with her interest in some of those who attended Hammel and everything. She wasn’t interested in whether he didn’t want to deal with it or not. “You do love your job don’t you?” She asked, an eyebrow raised.

“Aw, so you came because you love me,” she teased, her gaze going from the treats on display to Kane. “At least get a drink or something, owner’s gonna think we’re freeloading.” Diana smirked at her own joke and smiled. “I’ve been good. Getting to know some of the local kids, and you know, some of the more eligible females.” Not as had been as eligible as some, like the woman at the bar celebrating her bachelorette, and yet at the same time seemed very interested in Diana. “And yourself?”

[Kane Woonren]

"From what I've heard from you, our mother would get one look at me, turn around, and run in the other direction screaming about demons," he replied. Granted, it wouldn't be that much of a stretch, or the first time. It was coming up on Halloween too... he liked Halloween. He could walk around with his wings and tail out, and he would get stares of awe rather than terror. Usually. Most people thought that they were just a really elaborate costume until they got close, and realized the the scars were real and the wings were physically coming out of his back. He snapped out of the thoughts as Diana started talking again.

"Yeah, I guess," he said about the coffee, "And yes, I do." He really didn't drink very much coffee. It was usually water or something of that nature. "What was school like for you around here?" he asked. He really hadn't done a whole lot around the school. His time was spent between therapy, classes, and the nurse's office. He hadn't really had many friends when he'd gone. Really, most people had given him a bit of a wide berth. a 6 foot fourteen year old who'd collapsed in the hallway screaming in pain as wings ripped out of his back?

"Work, mostly." That was really his answer to just about anything. He worked, wandered aimlessly-either on foot or in the sky-and reluctantly made his way home to, hopefully, get some sleep. And then the cycle repeated itself from Monday to Friday, only changing up a little bit for the weekend. "I'm boring, I'm afraid."

[Diana Crow]

"Pfft, what else is new?" Diana asked, shaking her head. "Because according to her, I'm a demon, he's a demon, she's a demon..." she started, pointing around to various patrons in the doughnut shop. "Are you sure you don't want one of these?" She asked, biting into her half eaten doughnut. "You're missin' out." Very eloquently said from someone with fried dough in her mouth.

"It was pretty exciting," she said with a smirk. "I ran around naked once, that was fun. Oh! I was on the debate team..." Everyone was fun and exciting when Diana went to Hammel. She'd met plenty of people, had had many experiences, and really found out who she was. Now she just had to figure out what to do with her known self.

Diana laughed lightly. "You're not boring Kane, you just keep trying to convince everyone that you are. You just need to get out more, bet you'd make a bunch a friends." But that probably wasn't what Kane wanted. He wasn't the social butterfly Diana was.

"Are we going Trick or Treatin' this year?" She asked with a broad grin. It was always fun to go, especially when she could be as tall as him. "Are you gonna be a dragon again?" A little joke from his little sister, no biggy.

[Kane Woonren]

Kane loved his mother. Not the one Diana was talking about, but the woman that had raised him from the time he was small. Which hadn't been a long period in his life, but it still was one. Still, she was the woman who'd taken care of him from when he came to her until he went off to Hammel, and he still talked with her at least once a week. He wondered what kind of person he might be if he was raised by someone else. Someone... who hadn't quite been so much on the nice side of things, especially when it came to what came around puberty.

"Yes, I'm sure," he said with a nod. He was going to be flying later in the day, and he'd long since learned that flying on a full stomach, or even a barely-non-empty stomach, was not a good idea. He shook his head a little bit. "Uh... you were on the debate team?" he asked, a little taken aback. That was something a little unexpected. He couldn't help but imagine her being kicked out for swearing though.... But that wasn't nice of him to think about.

"Trick-or-Treating?" he repeated. He wasn't really planning on doing anything on Halloween, and trick-or-treating when you were in your 30s was somewhat frowned upon. He did, however, know what he was going to be doing the week leading up to Halloween. He was volunteering at the elementary school's "Haunted Halls" fundraiser. He wasn't going to be scaring anyone... at least, he didn't think he was. "I don't know, maybe."

[Diana Crow]

Diana swallowed the bit of doughnut in her mouth and gave him an imploring look. "It's like you don't know me at all Kane," she droned, smiling a little as she finished off the pastry. "I usually won, you should be proud of your little sister," she said, giving his arm a little smack and sipping at her drink, giving a shrug. It was his lose if he didn't want to eat anything.

"Aw come on! It'll be fun!" D insisted. Maybe she could take Jayna's kids if Kane was going to poop on her party. She rolled her eyes and tsked.

[Kane Woonren]

Kane nodded, and swallowed the comment that popped to mind, along with a sip of his drink. Maybe if he was slightly more open, he'd say it. 'Well, did you win the debate or did you 'win' the debate? The second one meaning you shouted a string of swears and made the other side stunned into silence for a few minutes.' But he wouldn't want to say that out loud to her, it might not be true. From what little he knew about his little sister though, that was what she might've done right now.

"I don't know," he said again. Halloween was his favorite nights of the year.... Nobody looked at him out of fear, people thought he had a great costume. He got pictures taken with happy kids, and got to see cute kids in cute costumes. Still, it would feel weird to take his sister trick-or-treating. He was working at the haunted halls thing at the elementary school, or at least he was going to try, they hadn't really started putting it together yet.

"I think I might just like to give out candy though. Or go to an event or something," he said, in case the haunted halls actually lasted through Halloween. He imagined there would also be some other things he could volunteer at or go to that would be for a good cause. He didn't really have very much money, but he could donate other things, or just go to charity haunted houses.