Word Count → 315 :: derp
It would have been good for Eris to be able to blame someone else, anyone else. She had lost faith in her old gods, and Larkspur's new ones did not appeal to her. She would give them their deserved respect, of course, but she would not worship. It was not quite agnosticism, certainly not atheism -- while she had decided Momotzli was indeed a false god, this did not mean all gods were false, and she did not deny the existence of Larkspur's gods. In fact, she thought it was rather plausible they were real -- there was old power in his blood, running through his veins. None of that had existed in Eterne as she saw it. For all their rituals and rites, they were devoid of any real truth, and thus they were utterly powerless. In her mind, however, there had been no religious interference here -- Eris done fucked up, simple as that and simpler still.
Eris did not so much as look at Molcaxitl as she entered the cave; her chartreuse eyes brushed over the other woman once, though the look seemed to pass through her entirely, blankly gazing at the stone wall behind Axi rather than the tawny coyote herself. With that, she turned and slid into the darkness of the room where she and Larkspur slept, drawing herself into a tight fetal position in the rearmost corner. There was not a tired bone in her body, but she did not want to be in the light. She didn't want Axi or Larkspur to see her cry, and she did not think she could muster up a lie if Pandemic or Salvia happened to wake. The soft whimpers and cries that managed to escape her were tangled and choked, no canorous element to them in the least. Some cries she managed to swallow back; others, she was not so lucky.
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