mall-caps;letter-spacing:4px;">THE SPARK OF DAWNHer attention was kept from the others, slender fingers only just picking at the food set before her. It wasn't that she was not hungry, though that was true enough, but that she had little trust in the slaves so far to eat food prepared by any but the Eternian woman, Molca. Molca knew her place. The rest? Well, one was Larkspur's and the other showed defiance, and neither of those things were appetizing to the shaman. So that was all she did — as others took great handfuls of meat, Tlantli picked and picked and picked and barely ate.
She didn't notice the movements of the defiant one until after his outburst, but her head shot up in time to watch the others spring into action. Her niece received a slap to the face while her strong father sprang to restrain him, the small man-boy at her side going about his own work. She was silent while Larkspur held him down. She was silent as his tongue was removed. Fire eyes remained wide and wondering as the display was done in front of all, a sick and almost vulgar sense of excitement coursing through her. And then it was over.
Laughter erupted from the jaws of the petite coyote, her eyes closing as a hand rose to cover the top of her muzzle — why she was laughing was unknown to her, but it came naturally to break up an otherwise tense atmosphere. "Esta es la razón por lobos son inútiles; debido a su estupidez." Each Spanish word was wrapped in melodic, laughing amusement as she berated the intelligence of many members at the table without thinking.
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