”You…you want me to kill it?” Zamara’s tone was filled with the incredulity of a girl who never had to provide her own meals. She had learned to cook well enough- but the act of butchery itself was as foreign to her as the wilds she now found herself within.
She had turned her attention away from Chaele to follow the pointing finger and had fixated her gaze upon the brazen animal that was ignorant of any coming danger. It seemed like such a cruel fate for this poor beast that only sought to slake his thirst and the trepidation shone brightly in Zamara’s expression.
”I’ve never…that is to say, I haven’t… isn’t it dangerous?”
Zamara looked down to the blade of the knife clutched within a weathered hand as though it were something completely unknown to her. She tried to imagine plunging it into the flesh of the boar. Letting the blood run over the ground. Watching the eyes lose their light. The young woman broke out into a cold sweat and let out a soft whimper. She found no voice to summon, so instead looked up to Chaele with eyes as wide as the moon and shook her head from side to side like a child trying to refuse a healthy but tasteless meal.
She had turned her attention away from Chaele to follow the pointing finger and had fixated her gaze upon the brazen animal that was ignorant of any coming danger. It seemed like such a cruel fate for this poor beast that only sought to slake his thirst and the trepidation shone brightly in Zamara’s expression.
”I’ve never…that is to say, I haven’t… isn’t it dangerous?”
Zamara looked down to the blade of the knife clutched within a weathered hand as though it were something completely unknown to her. She tried to imagine plunging it into the flesh of the boar. Letting the blood run over the ground. Watching the eyes lose their light. The young woman broke out into a cold sweat and let out a soft whimper. She found no voice to summon, so instead looked up to Chaele with eyes as wide as the moon and shook her head from side to side like a child trying to refuse a healthy but tasteless meal.
Zamara
