Noshiko quotes from Teen Wolf

What about Lydia? Why would he take her?

Noshiko

He would only take her for an advantage.

You mean her power?

Noshiko

[nods] The power of a banshee.

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Noshiko

He made a powerful move by splitting the two of you.

So, what's our move?

Ken

At this point, you need a divine move.

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[Kira has just learned her family plans on moving back to New York]

Ken

[to Noshiko] I thought you were going to talk to her?

Noshiko

Kira, we told you this was temporary.

That was after you told me I was a kitsune, and was going to have to destroy a dark spirit by stabbing and killing one of the few friends I've made in this town.

Noshiko

And you didn't have to! I call that a win.

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Liam

So, you've done this before, right?

Noshiko

I've seen it done.

Liam

[nervously] Is that just as good?

Noshiko

...No.

Mom, you're not inspiring confidence!

Noshiko

Good! This is a terrible idea!

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Hold on. What happens while I'm out? Am I gonna feel anything?

Noshiko

It might feel like you're dreaming.

[anxious] Good dreams, or bad?

Noshiko

I suppose that depends on you.

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Melissa

[about their children] Why are we doing this? Why are we asking them to fight these kinds of fights?

Noshiko

Because otherwise, we'd be asking them to run and hide.

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Noshiko

I'm guessing the power doesn't go out often in this hospital.

Melissa

Only when under attack by supernatural creatures.

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[Kira, who has been stabbed in the chest, is fading fast and is crying in fear. Suddenly her mother's astral projection comes to comfort her]

Noshiko

It's all right to cry. It's no measure of your strength.

But I'm not strong. I need to get up. I need to tell them...

Noshiko

How do you know you can't?

Because I'm not healing. You told me why I never get sick. And you said I'd learn to heal...

Noshiko

Then learn.

I can't. I don't know how, or where to start.

Noshiko

I told you once that foxes and wolves tend not to get along. But they are similar creatures, aren't they? You've seen wolves heal. How do they do it? Kira, how do they trigger it?

[gasps] Pain. With pain.

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[Noshiko and Kira are meeting in Ken's office. Noshiko hands her daughter a small parcel, which she opens to find a small, black shuriken throwing star]

Noshiko

That shard of obsidian that you brought back, Kira? There's a reason you kept it. And a reason your father took the liberty of making an alteration to it. Do you know what it is?

[shocked] A tail.

Noshiko

[smiles proudly] Your first.

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Ken

You know, there's a legend for a storm like this.

Dad, please don't turn a three-hour traffic jam into an educational experience...

Noshiko

He's talking about the Wild Hunt-- about the Ghost Riders. In storm clouds just like these, phantom hunters would appear, riding black horses with blood-red eyes, and wolves and hounds at their side, baying and snarling...

What were they hunting?

Noshiko

Souls.

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[Kira tries once again to read The Dread Doctors novel, but when the words start getting blurry again, she angrily throws the book across her bedroom. Noshiko, who was passing her room in the hallway, picks up the book and walks inside to talk to her]

Noshiko

I can't help but notice your frustration.

I'm the only one who still hasn't finished reading it. And everything that started going wrong with me started with them.

Noshiko

If it's the language that is confusing the fox... Maybe you should stop trying to understand it.

[confused] Huh?

Noshiko

The story itself is confusing the fox. Try not reading the story.

How do I do that?

Noshiko

Try reading it backwards.

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[Kira and Noshiko have just arrived to Shiprock, New Mexico, where they're in the middle of the desert]

How do we find them?

Noshiko

Skinwalkers are powerful shapeshifters, and not particularly welcoming to strangers on their land. They'll find us.

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[Kira has just been beaten in battle with the three Skinwalkers, one of which has pinned her against a large boulder by impaling her in the shoulder with her spear. The three Skinwalkers look at her curiously for a moment while Noshiko watches anxiously, and they speak in distorted voices]

S1Skinwalker 1

She's frightened... But she's not frightened of us.

S2Skinwalker 2

Of herself.

Noshiko

Can you help her?

S1Skinwalker 1

We can try.

S2Skinwalker 2

If not, she stays.

What... What does that mean?

S1Skinwalker 1

If we can't help you, you'll stay and become one of us. A Skinwalker.

S2Skinwalker 2

You'll walk with us under the sun, through the dust.

S3Skinwalker 3

Forever.

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[Noshiko has just come in to check on Kira]

What happens now?

Noshiko

They're going to test you. Tonight. It's not going to be easy.

Have they mentioned anything about fixing me?

Noshiko

They have their methods. It takes time.

[anxiously] How much time? Days?

Noshiko

[grimly] Months. Or years.

Are you kidding?!

Noshiko

[sternly] Don't think I take this lightly, Kira.

[desperately] Mom, years?

Noshiko

You're Kitsune. You have centuries.

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What about my friends? What about Scott?

Noshiko

[tearfully] If this part of you becomes too powerful, it will consume you. Do you understand what that means? You wont even exist anymore.

So, this is it? This is all I've got? I pass their test and then I can spend a couple months, or, if I'm really lucky, years, learning from a couple of crazy, half-naked women carrying spears and wearing animal pelts?

Noshiko

You carry a sword and you wear a leather jacket. We're not so different from them.

What if they can't help me? Do I really become one of them?

Noshiko

If you become a Skinwalker and stay with them, it could keep you alive. It could be the only thing that saves you.

All the myths about Skinwalkers say they're evil.

Noshiko

[smiles weakly] They say the same thing about Kitsune.