Title: change on the wind
Fandom: White Collar/mythology
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: blasphemy for more than one religion?
Pairings: none stated
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 290
Point of view: third
Prompt: Neil, like a former god
He is not the oldest, nowhere near that primordial age, and while he is not the weakest, he is also not the strongest.
He never belonged to any one pantheon; he preferred to travel, to live amongst the humans and explore the world instead of lording above it. Because of that, he has a name in every culture and a legend in each country.
He is the god of trickery and change, of acting and playing, of the tale and stage and movie-reel. He is the god of lying and painting, of dancing and singing. He is the god of fun.
He has lived a thousand lives, been a man and woman, a coyote and a fox, a raven and a mockingbird, a dolphin and a clownfish. He has annoyed all the great gods, from Zeus and Odin to Vishnu and Yahweh and Quetzalcoatl. He even danced with Kali once.
While he wears a shape, he locks away anything that is unnatural to that shape. So he did not have to die as a coyote, but allowed himself to. It'd be cheating to do anything else.
And he does not have to stay in New York, shackled like a pup, tethered by a tracking anklet. He did not have to stay in prison, or escape like any other criminal. He is unlike every other criminal in the annals of history. He is the greatest criminal, the first thief, the supreme con-man.
He is Coyote, and all the world is his territory.
But in this life, he' s Neal Caffrey. And Neal Caffrey belongs in New York, to Peter Burke. This game with Peter is the most fun he's had in three lives, so he will see it through to the end.