history is written by the victors

Myrika Tears · 02-26-2012, 05:21 AM

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Stoooop. ;_; It's okay to leave me sit for a few days.

In truth, it had taken Myrika some time to work up the courage to come to Inferni. The skulls ringing the borders hadn't helped her any, and her father's warnings had echoed in her head like some terrible and tuneless chorus. She was ashamed to admit such now, and wouldn't have volunteered such information to one she admired, such as Vesper. Instead, she continued her work about the fire, eventually reaching for the rabbit. She skinned it expertly with the same knife she'd used to spark the fire. It was an ugly thing, built for utility and work rather than show or combat, but it worked quite well for Myrika, who was careful to keep the blade razor-sharp.

She put the wet hide aside, draping it over the windowsill rather carelessly. She wasn't certain if she'd cure that one, as it was almost sure to have holes and imperfections, but neither was she one to discard potentially good leather and pelt, so she'd done as she customarily did, and set it aside for a later decision. The naked rabbit carcass was gutted and split in a few moments, and the coyote set it on a stick, using a rather thin leather cord she unwound from the stick, wrapping and tying the rabbit corpse to the makeshift spit. As she dangled it out over the fire, one ear flicked toward the scarred woman, turquoise eyes following shortly thereafter. She enjoyed this bandy of words and it was good practice to be on the giving end of a historical discussion. She had received much, and it was due time for her to start retelling.

It really is old, the woman said, shaking her head. Unfathomably, she added. Inferni had existed seven years longer than her -- seven years was more than twice her life thus far. But -- well. Kaena was here for the foundation, though she didn't stay all this time, either. And at first, the only Lykoi in Inferni was Kaena -- until Gabriel was born, anyway. Ezekiel's dad, the Aquila before Ezekiel and after Kaena's last time as Aquila, she explained. Gabriel had many siblings, too, but he was the one she knew by name, and it was him she referred to. It's never been exclusively Lykois, she said, glad of that. She would find a clan consisting entirely of family tiresome. There's the Massacre family and the Mogotsi family, though that latter isn't currently represented in our ranks. There had been Tedros, whose name she now recognized in her history, but he was gone now, wasn't he? She did not know Sylvia Odessa Mogotsi, the Tirones Minor.

But there were wars -- against Clouded Tears and Aremys, two wolf packs of the time before the fire. Then, since the fire, Inferni warred with the pack Dahlia de Mai twice. Dahlia's no more, though. She had never encountered anyone of Aremys or Clouded Tears -- even the time of Dahlia de Mai was before her acceptance into Inferni. The rusty-tinged woman spoke of these things comfortably, though, as they were subjects integral to Inferni's history, and she had put a lot of time into the writing about them. There was much else to be said about their history, of course, but the wars were an undeniably large part of it.

Myrika is by Nat!

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