with the grove, and therefore, the shoreline, off-limits to the young ones for now, erzulie sought other ways to entertain her growing brood, and now the two children that raleska had asked her mate to tend. they were young yet, and chacal still little more than a babe, but the harlot brought a peeping sandpiper chick into their midst all the same.
releasing it near the mouth of her own moor-dug shelter, she chuffed to whoever might be close, and whomst might enjoy testing their mettle against the bedraggled little body.