Medusa hates rain.
Medusa, though terrified of the dark sky and what it might bring to their doorstep, refused to go back into the caves that made her home. She had stayed out all night, camped beneath a tree, whimpering at the sharp scent of something and whenever the wind howled past her. Her legs and back ached from how tightly into a ball she was curled.
She stood up slowly, rubbing the deep ache and groaning quietly. The wind hadn't ceased and the sky was even darker. When the Angela's call came, Medusa hearkened to it gladly. She scrambled up to where her golden leader stood, and then huddled in the cave. Angela, leader, sky! Sky is anger at us! Her eye was wide and her fingers tangled in her hair in sheer desperation and terror.
Something was coming and the woman didn't like it. She was terrified, and she was feeling odd, not at her usual rights. A stray thought about Angel arose, but it was quickly tamped down, and her overbearing terror overtook her. Medusa wrapped her arms around her legs and rocked slowly in the corner, whimpering almost silently.
She pet her snakes, suddenly glad that Armani and Eszter were nestled in her hair under the hood of her cloak. She shivered with desperation at the thought of what might happen to them if they were in the subterranean home when she had left. An odd, tight feeling went through her abdomen, like the twang of a rope suddenly losing all its slack. Medusa felt... nauseous.
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