mall-caps;letter-spacing:4px;">THE SPARK OF DAWNTlantli was a patient woman, and so she waited in silence as the Associate pondered her questions and thought of her answers, fire eyes focused solely on the world beyond the river as the wheels of her mind twisted about and crushed emotions beneath them. Magnolia. A flower name, a name for a girl, so different from Tlantli, which had roots in teeth. It seemed fitting, for this wolf was clearly a woman, with her soft fur and widening hips and delicately tapering waist. Curved and feminine. A flower in appearance. Perhaps she was a flower in persona as well, delicate and frail and utterly mortal, so unlike the Crone was in her strange young wisdom and lack of sympathy.
Was Salsola so different, as Magnolia described, from the packs in the south? She had only been part of the cave pack, Anathema, and Salsola was certainly a better place than that, run by a woman who seemed to have no rhyme or reason. None of them were like Eterne. She allowed her eyes to close, pondering these words with careful consideration. Was it a bad difference? Were they wrong? Certainly not, they were simply stronger and smarter and oh-so better prepared.
"Aye ahm Tlantli Kimaris, frahm Eterne. In Mexico." So far away, her warm deserts and forests and the ruins of ancient civilization turned useful to the Luperci who lived there. "What ties you to this plaise, Mahgnola." Who was it who had brought her? She smelled of Eris, of Larkspur, but she wondered which was her friend -- it wasn't her business to keep track of them all.
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