[SE] lavender haze

Sohalia

This is a gift, it comes with a price
Who is the lamb and who is the knife?

If Soh was honest, the little snake was rather cute, and she sent a command to her birds of prey to leave it alone. Obedient, they took flight, returning to some other section of the forest to continue their hunt without Soh's supervision. Without the birds, the snake came a little further out of the bush, flicking its forked tongue to test the air. Soh watched it with her head tilted to one side. Lena was probably right - they hadn't brought anything that it could eat, save the treats in Lena's pocket. It was a shame, really, that they couldn't spend time with it. It seemed like a friendly little thing.

Trusting in Lena's judgment, for she'd probably seen far more of Caido's wildlife than Soh - or at the very least, cared for more of them, nursing them back to health - the Luminary waited and watched. What should we do, then, if we don't want to feed it and make it an easy target, but we don't want to chase it off?

Midas is king and he holds me so tight
And turns me to gold in the sunlight