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After the rast ceremony of the previous day Lillith felt renewed, reborn almost. But not in the sense of personality or creed, no, instead, in the way of ability and respect. She had seen the way some had looked at her when she had unveiled her sacrifice to the pagan Gods of Anathema, seen how some had looked with disgust, others with horror, others with no reaction at all. But she had done what she had been told to do; she had not tasted the wolf pup’s blood, only the blood of its mother and siblings. She had done right by it, no? Presented it as if were merely sleeping instead of a soulless husk.
Still, she reveled in the reactions of her pack-mates, both good and bad, and today was rewarding herself with a leisurely ride on Korosk. Her mother didn’t like her riding the large Percheron stallion, believing she could not handle him. What did Panda know anyway? She obviously did not know her own daughter, did not know Lillith’s desires, her internal sufferings.
The red woman sat tall and proud on her steeds back. She was wearing the tight black dress she had come across for the first time, and she liked how her angular, sinewy body filled it. Her still freshly dreaded hair was pulled back tight up behind her head, and any stray fly away strands of hair kept under control by a dark green scarf. She felt beautiful and mighty, and oh, what is this? A male and some horses; a coyote stranger; she urged Korosk forward to get a better look at him, hazel eyes piercing into his cherrywood ones, but she said nothing. And then, like a dark angel, from above Skrak came to alight upon her boney shoulder. She reached up to give the large raven a small scratch under his chin; he was also silent.
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