one saw mud but the other saw stars

Eris Eternity · 04-09-2011, 05:16 AM

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a dog among kings with no self control

There were a few moments of quiet in which Eris's disquiet continued, on tenterhooks as the other canine seemed to be considering her response, or thinking of a way to quietly slit Eris's throat. This uncomfortable moment passed, and the flaxen coyote answered honestly, which was not something the sable-shaded hybrid had expected. Her green-yellow eyes did not move away from the other canine as she continued to speak, mentioning a name that caused Eris to straighten. She knew that name, though she did not know the particular significance it held to her -- these memories were locked away in some inaccessible part of her head, shoved there and chained down so as to keep the rest of her mind from growing black and infected with.

The familiar words came, in Spanish -- Eris did not understand them, but she knew enough to recognize their origin. She furrowed a brow quizzically at them, shaking her head slightly to show she did not understand. “They're wrong about a lot, but not everything,” she admitted, less cautious than she had been. “Their book -- most of it's a lie, I think, but there's some real center in all of it. They aren't that blind or stupid. I think the Tezcatlipoca have it more right than the Atototzli, though,” she admitted, somewhat proudly. That she considered herself something of a shaman, at least in Eternian terms, had nothing at all to do with this belief, of course.

“Metetzli is your father?” the hybrid asked, her voice rather strange, near weary. In some other life, this could have been her cousin, then. She was still quiet on her own connection to the Kimaris, finding it strange and sour that fate or God or the gods or simple coincidence would taunt her so. It would be an added kick that Metetzli had overcome his infertility. Of course, in Eris's mind, Mantus was still alive, and he'd never acquired another woman to carry his children -- she did not recall her own presence for any of this and just how close she had been to the tawny coyote and her siblings once upon a time.

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