he went forth conquering, and to conquer

Siv Helsi · 06-28-2012, 01:00 AM

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(393) ilu guys. Will reply as Salvia soon, giving everyone a few more days to get replies in. :>

Once, she had been considered something of a seer. This was a lie, of course, as all magic is fashioned from lies and all illusions are simply tricks. Siv was no stranger to these ideas; she was a ruthless, calculating woman who sought the dark corners of the world and took them by the throat. Her arsenal had been tested once, on her cousin, and awarded her a daughter who was her mother’s pride and joy. Again, she had tested her sand against Eris and come ahead, earning her way into a pack based on a lie and a gift caught by her fool-kin. Thrice she dared, and used her tricks and her cunning to snare, capture, and manipulate a man who mentally was her equal. It was only doubt that had allowed this—doubt that he had miscalculated and doubt that magic was perhaps, as he feared, true.

All of these things were proof to her that whatever gods she served held her grace, even if they gave her no true magic. She called upon them often—Odin, Thor, the Hearg Trio, and even Loki—for they were real now, that blood had spilled for them, and real because she would make them real. No longer was she alone, either. Whispers of this new foundation of the north, of those who spoke her tongue and knew her gods, those had reached her dark ears. Soon she would seek them, but not yet. Not while the very foundations of her home were twisting and changing.

She came without hurry to the cry of the Tigress, her steps heavy against the warm earth. Something had changed. It did not take scrying or magic to tell her that. When she arrived there was the Family assembled, the lovers showing the signs of their matrimony all over Odessa’s growing belly, the gypsy woman that was Sirius’ exotic plaything, the dog and his wolfish bride with their children, Eris’ darling daughters, her fool cousin and the woman he now bedded, the King and his maid (for she was not a queen to them, and never would be), and her perfect, darling daughter. Siv circled to her side and touched her gently with one hand, but said nothing. She hovered protectively near the girl, attention drifting from one to another as she waited for the girl to speak.

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