in tenebris est veritas.
“And drink is much more effective at making one feel better, is it?” There was something so entirely spontaneous about this woman, in contrast to the masked and pretentious creature at her feet. It inspires a thread of ease to tug free from the meticulous tapestry of Chaele’s veneer, a smile crawling over their shadowed features as their gaze dips over Pihu’s exposed body. Eventually it finds purchase on the offered rum with a relenting sigh.
The shaman takes the bottle into long, gnarled fingers and sniffs it testingly. The stone remains in their other hand, both moreso objects of contemplation than action. “Now that you have gone through all the trouble of retrieving my stone, I suppose I must make a wish. Or perhaps I shall be unpredictable, and keep it instead.”
The shaman takes the bottle into long, gnarled fingers and sniffs it testingly. The stone remains in their other hand, both moreso objects of contemplation than action. “Now that you have gone through all the trouble of retrieving my stone, I suppose I must make a wish. Or perhaps I shall be unpredictable, and keep it instead.”
