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chapter vi - Disa - July 18, 2025
Disa had stayed close to home and the stream since the hunt. The bison was all but eaten – @Soto had been offered organs, @Safiya and @Kemal had eaten their well-deserved fill, and both @Arslan and @Dracarys had been summoned to share in the feast. When her stomach was full, Disa had secured a couple of ribs for herself to chew on while she convalesced.
That had been many days and one fever ago. The wound in her thigh still burned, but it looked better - weepy, pink, and covered in viscous plasma, which was an improvement on the minced meat situation she had started with. Still, it wasn't pretty, and when Disa felt a presence at her back, she turned her exposed meat away from prying eyes.
"It's rude to stare," she grumbled at the visitor.
RE: chapter vi - Kemal - July 18, 2025
Things were tough, to say the least.
Disa had been injured in a hunt he led, Apollo had disappeared in Leto's absence, Delos was being moved to the caldera, and a face that had only lived in the back of his mind for months now had shown up on Verapaz borders. He hadn't been able to bring himself to tell Leandros.
It was his overwhelming sense of guilt that brought him to visit Disa.
Sorry.He had been lingering in his thoughts.
Are you feeling any better?
RE: chapter vi - Disa - July 19, 2025
Disa shrugged. "I'll live," she said, arranging her forepaws in a neat line. The wound would scar. The fur would regrow, but there would always be a crooked line of knotted, bald skin. Disa didn't know what annoyed her more – the mark, or the fact that it mattered to her.
Kemal looked like he had more on his mind than scars. You could have parked a bicycle in the furrow between his eyes. "You look worried. Did you get caught shitting in the river?" Kemal always looked as though someone had stolen his favorite stick, and pain made her crass.
RE: chapter vi - Kemal - July 24, 2025
The comment caught Kemal off-guard, and left him to wonder if others really were shitting in the river. Not a thought he wanted to linger on.
I'm worried for Verapaz.He responded after a moment.
Too much is going wrong, wolves are upset.How long had it been since they had something to properly celebrate?
Breaking his usual air of caution, he approached Disa for a better look at the unfortunate scar. There wasn't much you could say to make that sort of thing seem better.
RE: chapter vi - Disa - July 25, 2025
Kemal the Dour gave a humorless reply, pouring his worries in a stinking heap at her feet. Disa exhaled hard out of her nose. "Wolves are alive and fed," she pointed out, "We felled a bison, and the mother of the crispy little boy has answers. What other sad little problems do you have for me?" Spoiled boy.
He moved closer, eyes drifting to her injured leg. Disa bristled and coiled like a snake, a flash of teeth making it very clear that trespassers in her personal space were in for a beating.
RE: chapter vi - Kemal - July 26, 2025
Kemal complied with the warning, sitting back away from her wound.
A puppy is missing, and you were injured.He grunted, an eyebrow cocked.
That's only what has happened since you have been here. Worse has crossed us.Something made him want to be defensive, it was hard not to be. At least a little bit.
Worrying is my job. Careless men let wolves die.He was stupid to have suggested hunting bison, he had wanted Disa to feel welcomed. Even if they had taken the bison down there was safer prey to hunt.
RE: chapter vi - Disa - July 27, 2025
Disa remained on her guard lest Kemal should change his mind about trying to sneak a peek. The wound was hideous – a long, broad valley of congealed red edged by unbroken ridges of puckered, pink flesh. The chances of it healing down to a discreet line were slim.
But it wasn't Kemal's fault. Disa was not much for mutton, and she had known that three wolves versus one bison was reckless – bordering on insane.
"Worrying isn't a job. At least not for one man. Chief Worrier," she grimaced lightly. Disa rarely worried. She acted and assessed – on occasion, she schemed.
She thought but did not say that pups were a renewable resource. She thought not did not say that if the missing pup was anything like Delos, then good riddance - Leto could try again for a less defective batch. Instead, Disa parked her cold eyes on Kemal's and asked: "What makes you such a worrier?"
RE: chapter vi - Kemal - July 27, 2025
Careless siblings, then marriage and children.His response was matter-of-fact and clearly did not take much consideration, an answer he just knew.
When you find something to care about it gives you reason to worry.
Standing once more Kemal decided that he was in the mood for a patrol, or maybe a spar. Nonetheless he would go look for Safiya.
What makes you so pessimistic?A nicer way to put it. One half of his brothers might have called her ignorant, the other somewhere between 'lonely' and the less nice kind of see you next Tuesday. Kemal wasn't looking to be mean however.
Not lingering for much longer he took his exit, drifting off to his next task.
RE: chapter vi - Disa - July 27, 2025
"What makes you so pessimistic?"
Disa frowned. Had she not been the one to look on the bright side mere moments ago, despite being the one injured?
She opted not to respond and Kemal moved away, effectively ending the conversation. Careless siblings. Härkä had been one of those, but now he was conveniently dead. A surly, incapable creature with the hunting skills of mushroom – so not a great loss.
Disa turned her back and began to lick at her wound.