There are certain things that must be avoided when engaging in exposition. As a writer, one must often indulge in it, to help set the scene, to help ensure that certain knowledge is imparted to the characters and to the audience. Ah, but this creates an unusual situation: Perhaps the characters, in universe, do not know the information but the audience does? This can create a sense of dramatic irony, especially in potentially allowing that audience to notice that a character has said something incorrect.
But then there's the other way around. The audience does not know, but the characters do. In such cases, a clever writer would find ways to reveal the relevant information to the audience in a more natural way. Perhaps they shall use a narrator? Perhaps someone is present in the scene asking questions that the other characters know the answer to, thus presenting a natural opportunity to bring these details up? The one thing that no writer should ever do is have a character utter the phrase -
"As you know," Taniko said. Yes, that's exactly the - oh dammit. "Werewolves are otherwise ordinary people who transform into mindless wolves at the turn of the full moon. They can only be hurt by silver, and being bitten by one spreads the curse."
Shusui nodded. "Right, right, that's the basic information," he said, and for his trouble Taniko bopped him on the nose.
"Wrong!" Taniko said. "There's more to it than that. I mean. Obviously. If werewolves spread the curse with a bite, there'd be no humans left."
"Um!" Hyosuke raised his hand. "I was bitten by a werewolf and became a -"
Suddenly Taniko was sitting in his lap, and the two of them temporarily lost their humanity. In particular, Taniko was looking him in the eyes with the hunger of someone dying of starvation. She was about a heartbeat away from taking him right there and then.
However, instead of that, Saori used a water spray to douse Taniko's hair.
"Oooh, thanks for that!" Taniko gasped. "Anyway, the point is - not everyone is able to become a werewolf if bitten. There are other certain conditions that must be met before a bit person transforms into a werewolf."
"And those conditions are...?" Saori asked.
To which, Taniko simply shrugged.
"It's a mystery to us as well," she said. "We used to think it was a genetics thing, but on at least one occasion an experimenting werewolf bit their own parents to see what happened and wound up with a very awkward time in hospital right afterwards." She shrugged. "It doesn't just pass by the bite, either. A strong enough exchange of bodily fluids can trip the transformation as well. But not always? For some people, a kiss will do it. For most, they need the bite."
"And for others, the beast with two backs results in two beasts?" Shusui offered, resulting in Saori giving him a nudge with her elbow. "Sorry, sorry. I can't help but find the situation a little amusing. I mean, timid little Hyosuke here becomes a slavering beast at -"
Without warning, Hyosuke started kissing the nape of Taniko's neck. He wasn't normally as forward as this, but his body was simply reacting to her presence. Her taste, her scent, it excited him in a way he'd never felt before.
"Whoooo boy," Saori whistled, and spritzed him this time to snap him out of it. Cold! Ack! Oh dear, all of a sudden the boy wanted to curl up into a ball and hide somewhere. "Have fun after exposition time. We'll make sure to clear out for you first."
"More to the point, what you've said implies there's a society of werewolves, right?" Shusui asked. "I mean, you wouldn't know about experiments on what causes it if there wasn't some kind of society."
"Um, yeah, there is," she admitted. "Sorta. It's more like a big club than a conspiracy thing really. Most of us just sorta reach out as a support network to try to get a handle on what's going on. But then, there are those who want to use the power this gives us to, uh, you know, take over the world."
Aha, right then. We're going for wannabe SatAM cartoon villainy here. Is that what it is?
"You know how it is, factions within factions, political bullshit, blah blah blah!" Taniko sighed. "In this case, the jerk in charge of that faction has figured I'd make a strong mate for him, and gone out of his way to push away absolutely anyone else that might have been a good contender. Not that I was interested in such matters anyway..."
But then she turned back towards Hyosuke and looked him dead in the eyes again. With a look like that, the two of them ought to have already been fucking right there. Again, though: The two of them got the spritz.
"I'm gonna need to refill this soon," Saori chirped. "Still, it's good that Hyosuke's got a girlfriend."
"A girlfriend who is currently desired by the leader of the werewolf division of Cobra," Shusui said. "So what was his big bad plan anyway."
"Dunno for sure, but it involved stealing from that museum~" Taniko said. "Must be some sort of magical artefact or other that's responsible. I've been working there for a hot minute myself, never imagined for a second they'd be up to something. Right now, my advice is you need to keep your head down low. Don't tell anyone you know about us - and maybe go take a shower to make sure my scent isn't on you or your clothes. Head out. Have fun. Give us some privacy~"
The two humans looked to one another, smirked and nodded, then quietly retreated. Their shy and insecure friend was about to get some ass. What kind of friends would they be if they stuck around?
Almost as soon as the door was closed, the two of them were naked. Looking down, Hyosuke was a little shocked to see how shredded his body had become. But that didn't last long. Soon enough he was looking her up and down, drinking her in, heart pounding in his chest, as instincts he'd never known before were taking over his thinking process.
She mounted him before he could claim her, and the two of them melted into one another. Rutting as humans, while snarling like beasts. She was his mate. His partner. The two of them were destined for one another, and -
"Why did you lie?" he asked despite himself.
"Huh?" she grunted.
"Awooo~" Hyosuke snarled, tackling her to the ground and pinning her in place. "You weren't a werewolf before last night. I don't know how I can tell - but I can tell. You were human, not a werewolf."
"Mmmm~ I'd expect no less from my mate!" she snarled back, and seized his lips. "Knock me up, I need it, I need it so badly. Put a strong, strong werewolf inside of me, awooo~"
He could only try his best to oblige her. Fuck! He'd never felt like this before! Normally he was so shy, so insecure, so withdrawn from others, but somehow - somehow he'd picked up on the social cues that his friends had missed. The details were wrong. She'd misled them on purpose about something or other, and he didn't know why.
In the heat of passion, it was hard to care. Even so, she was moaning now, melting under him, rutting away and clinging to his body desperately.
"Ah! Ah! F-Fine! The truth is... I've been investigating werewolves for a while now!" she admitted. "Awoooo~ M-My father was a paranormal investigator, and I was - ah! Hoping to follow in his footstep, but now all I want is - gimme baby! Knock me up!"
"Then why didn't you say that?"
"Mmmm, because then your friends would dig further into things," his mate replied. For a moment there, he forgot her name. It simply didn't matter to him, because she was his mate. "Oooh~ Don't look at me like that, I'm not the bad guy here, promise!"
That's the thing. He was pretty sure she wasn't the 'bad guy' in the situation... but he could still sort of tell she wasn't being entirely honest either. No matter. His instincts were telling him other things as well. The more they mated the more they would understand each other.
He barely noticed the rise in confidence he was feeling right now. A shame it wouldn't last - and that before too long he'd be right back to his normal insecure self. But for now? For now he was having the time of his life, rutting with his mate. Shouldn't we all be so lucky?
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