[M] make your mother sigh

Eris Eternity · 07-10-2012, 04:31 AM

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Eris is by Kiri!

Eris learned forward after a moment and lifted her hand, inspecting the new wound. When she found its bleeding sufficient, the dark-furred hybrid prepared to make another cut, positioning the knife so it might make the straight line down the center of the mark. Before she could, however, her daughter spoke and the hybrid looked up, peering toward her with curious yellow-green eyes. They glinted with apparent merriment at the question, as if she was glad Ataxia had followed this train of thought -- and truly, she was.

I keep it because it is mine, she said, and this was the simple truth of it: she had scarred her flesh in such a way that the spiral marking would never go away, at least not without intense pain and suffering. She might be able to brand or burn it off, but this would leave her with a scar-bared shoulder, fleshless and burned red. She would not sacrifice her shoulder's fur and give such pain over for lack of belief -- her comfort was far more important than things as transient and mutable as beliefs.

Just because part of something is false does not make the whole of it false, she asserted, leaving Ataxia to pore over this as she returned her attention to the cut, repositionining her knife. The bright red trail it left behind intersected with the first, which began weeping blood anew.

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