fix the sky a little
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Set in the Witch's Cauldron. Private.

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Perhaps it was all the travelling she had done to come here, but Marika found the sea comforting. There was something about the way in which waves crashed against the shore, advancing on the white sands before retreating, an endless cycle of coming and going, but it soothed it. It reminded her of the long weeks spent on a ship between Europe and this new world. She could remember everything. The voices and faces of her Romanian packmates. Their strange tongue, both harsh and musical, the way they emphasised their vowels, the way her lover spoke her name in the long mornings together. She could also remember the harsh voices of the crew in the boat, the way the captain would shout his orders and make sure they were obeyed. He had been a kind man underneath the harsh facade and she had entertained him many a night through her music and her body.


Walking along the beach just a little further out from the court's lands, Marika smiled at her pleasant memories. There were clouds rolling in off the shore and the more she looked, the more the storm beckoned to her. The wolfess could feel the energy stored in the grey mass and she wanted the air to become so charged with power that it would be hard to breathe. She wanted lightning to streak across the sky and split it down the middle, only to be followed by loud, boisterous thunder seconds later. It would remind her of the drunken nights her pack in the Carpathians had had, when the music would be at its loudest and the dancing infectious, when every male, female and pup would twist, dip and twirl to pan pipes and lutes.


Sitting down on the rocks overlooking the bay, Marika looked out to sea and her heart yearned for the times she had known with friends, wondering whether she would ever find that same kind of joy, that same feeling of belonging.



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