Once school had ended, Renata Hamilton and her friends Ruby and Jezebel headed straight for the mall to look for potential recruits for Renata's werefox skulk. Between her foxskin belt and her Werebrush, she had more than enough means to grow her skulk from a single member (two if Ruby was prepared to leave her mother's skulk) to a massive band of shapeshifting fox-people. She hoped she'd make a good alpha. Werefoxes were normally quite difficult to give orders to, but that might not be a problem if the new werefoxes were willing to take the Werefox Inhibitor Potion like she had.
"See anyone good" Renata asked Ruby and Jezebel. Ruby didn't seem to hear her girlfriend, just staring off into space. "Hey, Ruby! Are you even listening?!"
Ruby snapped out of it. "Oh, sorry. I was just thinking about that vampire girl I broke up with, the one called Valeria von Karnstein. She seemed really hurt by what I did."
"I guess," Jezebel shrugged. "What of it?"
"I never meant to break her heart like that," Ruby sighed. "I just did what felt right for me at the time, and it hurt her." The werevixen turned to face Renata. "I never want to hurt you like that, Renata. I want to be good to you. But... it's hard with my mischievous, irresponsible werevixen nature. I don't want my heart to wander, but how can I stop it?"
"You could always take the Werefox Inhibitor Potion like I do," Renata suggested.
"It's not for me," Ruby said firmly. "I enjoy being a creature of pure chaos. Is there another way?"
"Maybe Morgana knows a way," Renata shrugged. "She might have a love potion strong enough to bind us as unbreakable soulmates or something. Who knows? In the meantime, see anyone who might enjoy being a werefox?"
"Hmm..." Ruby mused. "It has to be somebody who appreciates mischief. And, since the three of us are all bi, our skulk can be open to both guys and girls. Hey, who's that?"
Ruby pointed at a girl clad in spiky leather running a hand through her purple mohawk. Her exposed arms were covered in sleeve tattoos. She was slouched against a wall, a spray-can in her hand.
"That's Isabelle Newberry," said Renata, "though she insists that we all call her Spike. Spike's our schools resident delinquent and graffiti artist. She lives to rebel and give 'fuck yous' to authority."
"Sounds like a natural werevixen to me," said Jezebel. "Hey, there's Lucas!" The succubus pointed at a short, slender boy with chin-length blond hair and an impish grin. "That's Lucas Herrick, Ruby. He's the biggest prankster in our grade. He should understand your lifestyle pretty well, right?"
"Sounds like it," said Ruby.
Renata noticed a girl in a coming out of the pot shop that had just opened last month. She was wearing a long floral-print dress, a paisley-print top with flared sleeves, sandals, a lavender headband, and heart-shaped sunglasses. Her shopping bags smelled distinctly of marijuana. "Isn't that Flora Roberts?" asked Renata. "My friend Marley's sister?"
"She comes from an entire family of stoners, right?" asked Jezebel. "I bet she'd enjoy the chill pace of life in a werefox skulk."
"Let's go make make an offer to one of them," Renata smiled. "Any one of them would make an awesome first addition to my skulk. But who should we invite first?"