Word Count :: 372
The scent of the rabbit's fear seemed to permeate Eris's small dwelling between the ruined piles of rock. They jutted angrily up from the ground, but weather had worn and broken them down. Gaps now opened in the rock and between them, chinks where the coast's wind would whistle. Still, she could smell the rabbit's anguish, leaking droplets of yellow staining its pallid underfur. The woman peered at it with indifference, wondering if it knew the purpose it would serve. There was little magic to be found in these stupid sorts of creatures, true enough, but she did not intend to start Salvia off by cutting open another canine in front of her. These small steps would do. They would serve to awaken her spirit in the very same way that Eris's had been awakened in Eterne.
Soft rustling outside of her ruins drew the elder woman's attention, and she turned her head slowly to face Salvia, her smile glittering beneath the cold, dead one of the bear. She had taken her Optime form, and the hybrid woman greeted her with the nuzzle, needing to bend only a little to reach each of her daughter's cheeks. Eris wondered faintly if she would be as tall and stately as her father; surely the girl's height would exceed her own. The coyote had been filtered from Salvia neatly, Eris thought, and she smiled, beckoning her daughter to sit.
The Queen did so herself with some small stiffness, her stomach's roundness peeking out beneath the tied paws of the fox. The rabbit had been placed at the foot of the stone that served as the coal woman's alter, but she made no move for it or the bone dagger, but instead smiled at Salvia eagerly. Now, the woman reached for her daughter's hands, clutching after them. “Your soul will burn like fire tonight, my dear,” the woman said, her thumbs running over her the tawny backs of Salvia's hands. “It will burn and hurt and change you, but for the better. You won't fear it.” she elder woman said. She would not lie to Salvia; the truth would serve to prepare her.
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