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npx run migrate - Disa - October 21, 2025
Looking for a guide to give Disa the tour!
With @Panacea's help, Disa had made short work of the field of green. By the time she pulled the metaphorical door on her time at Luneshale Pass, the leaves on the uprooted plants were already limp and dying. She hoped @Soto would spot the mess on his way out, and that he would be angry. The thought of it made saliva pool around Disa's teeth.*
Lion's Head Mesa was a peculiar sight to behold. Disa was instantly mistrustful of its flat top and lack of friends, and slowed to stare at her new home from a distance she judged safe from its invisible mountain eyes. She supposed it would do. There was water, and the pastures were literally greener to the north and east despite the late season.
The future mistress of poisons suddenly found that she could not take another step. The mountain was staring at her.
RE: npx run migrate - Defne - October 21, 2025
Defne hadn't quite moved into the mesa, remaining by the small streams day and night as though they were her life line. She wasn't interested in being cooped up inside of a den just yet.
A Verapaz girl catches her eye. She hasn't spoken to this one but she has seen her, more than that, Kemal has carried her scent from time to time. But why is she so still? Scared, maybe, but Defne can't imagine why.
Curiosity taking over, she brings herself to her paws and skulks forward. Frankly there's nothing intimidating about the Aguila's mother from her average stature to her soft eyes, she isn't concerned about spooking the other.
You look worried.
RE: npx run migrate - Disa - October 22, 2025
An older woman materialized as if from some pocket dimension, adding fuel to the fires of Disa's unease about the mesa. It did not help that a snake followed behind her, black as she was and a whip-snap against Disa's heart, which reared into a gallop at the sight of it.
The thing was slow and stiff as it coiled around Defne's hind leg. Disa wondered when it would go underground.
"It is ugly," she told the woman flatly, eyes on Yavru. Disa's face did not provide much reading material - if she was afraid or worried, it was not clearly written. "Do you like it?"
RE: npx run migrate - Defne - October 22, 2025
Defne's unspoken questions went unanswered, the conversation now directed to Yavru.
Of course, my husband gave him to me.She smiled, Disa's comments rolling right off of her. Yavru clamped empty jaws onto her leg, beady eyes somehow very clearly watching Disa.
He has no fangs. Venom, yes, but it can't do much now.She wasn't sure how much the damage the venom would really do, anyways. Defne doubted it would do much more than make a grown wolf ill.
Have you never thought to keep a pet?
RE: npx run migrate - Disa - October 22, 2025
Disa's silver eyes drifted from the snake to its owner. It took her a blank-stare-reboot-brain moment to figure out that Defne had misunderstood what she was calling ugly. "The mountain," Disa clarified without apology, "The mountain is ugly. The snake is... fine. Or at least known, in terms of the danger it posed - which was apparently none at all.
"I've never had a pet," Disa went on, and there was a flicker of something a little more alive in her expression now. "Maybe a wolf."
RE: npx run migrate - Defne - October 22, 2025
She hadn't been calling him ugly after all, then. Good! For the mountain, she could only shrug.
I trust Kemal. If he says it is a good home, then it must be.
Disa's response to her question prompted a raised brow. Keeping one of your own kind sounded more like slavery, or a weird kink.
Not wolves, but maybe a coyote. A lesser canine.However, Defne wasn't keen on discussing such a strange topic further.
You'll need to get closer to the mountain sooner or later, let's go together.She offered.
I need to go too, escape my babysitter.There was a flash of irritation before her face smoothed over once more.
RE: npx run migrate - Disa - October 22, 2025
A lesser canine. Disa licked her lips and thought of a single lamp-like eye shining from the bottom of a dark pit.
The younger wolf hesitated for a second before trailing after Defne and her beady-eyed friend. A claim had been staked, and she needed Verapaz - might even thrive among them, now that the green was no longer a factor.
"But you are not a baby," Disa said, drawing level with her companion. "Why do you need watching? Are you feeble?"
RE: npx run migrate - Defne - October 22, 2025
Defne shook her head.
Kemal is my son, and he is your leader. He says I am ill, so others listen.She held a steady pace forwards, eyes straight ahead.
I don't like who he has sent to me. She smells too much like him, his wife won't be happy.
She looks back to Disa now, waiting for some sort of reaction.
I didn't think he would have a wandering eye. I chose her so well, Narin is a good woman.There was something like genuine disappointment in her tone.
The mountain ahead was already well marked by Verapaz, and while quiet would surely be filled with life as members returned from tasks. The sides were steep but climbable, clearly so from the caves in the sides that were already being repurposed as dens. Defne was sure she could see Kemal sat on the western facing ridge.
RE: npx run migrate - Disa - October 22, 2025
Ah, so this was Kemal's mother. Disa turned to stare at the side of her face as they walked, searching for signs of Defne's sons, dead and alive, in her dark fur.
"His wife died," Disa said. Perhaps she did not know. Then, without ceremony or inflection, she added: "Your other son told me. The one that mated with men. And also died." This, surely, was old news.
RE: npx run migrate - Defne - October 22, 2025
Defne shook her head, managing a smile.
No, you must be mistaken. I just saw her a week ago.
Besides that, I have no sons who.. mate with men. Leandros and Kemal are married, and Cinar.. well, he doesn't have the time.She had never picked a mate for her third son. No woman was good enough, not at the time.
I haven't asked your name. What is it?Her tail swished behind her, watching the younger woman.
Mine is Defne.
RE: npx run migrate - Disa - October 23, 2025
Disa slowed to a halt, holding Defne's golden gaze in hers. This woman was either deluded or misinformed or both - Disa had seen the body, smelled the blood. Leandros was dead, and Kemal seemed pretty convinced that his wife had met a similar fate.
Disa decided not to press the issue. She knew that some wolves reacted strangely when reality became incompatible with their inner world.
"He needs a wife here," she did say, gazing up the steep side of the vast red palace. "Not a one-week-ago wife."
Wolves had walked the belly of this beast before them. Disa experienced the imprint of their long departed souls as a bitterness in the back of her throat, and she eyed one of the dark openings in the rock with apprehension. "My name is Disa," she said quietly, and a moment later: "Is she strong? The not-wife. Your baby-sitter." If Kemal had chosen, let it be someone sturdy at least.
RE: npx run migrate - Defne - October 23, 2025
Disa asks about the babysitter, and Defne clicks her tongue.
No. Her features are too thin to be pure, and she's too skinny from travel.She decides. Her nose wrinkles,
She reeked of the aftermath of a heat.
It gave Defne a sense of dread to think that her son could have gone behind her back. She wanted grandchildren, preferably grandchildren that didn't see more than one of her own children as parents, but there was a way things were meant to be done. Kemal could not abandon the ways of his home so easily, could he?
She eyes up Disa once more, something crossing her face.
You would do better. Your body is small, but well built. Strong children will come from you, Disa.She likes Disa better. More than that, she resents the idea that she might not have a say.
Have you thought about children?
RE: npx run migrate - Disa - October 23, 2025
On this point they seemed to be aligned - the wife of the king and mother of the future needed some.. heft. For Defne, it seened to be a matter of cultural expectation - one with long and tangled roots. For Disa, it was about survival. Life ate pups, and if Kemal's wife could produce a surplus, the pack had a better chance of growing.
"Have you thought about children?"
It was the second time in recent memory that Disa had been asked that question. "I don't like them much," she replied, pocketing the compliment to study later. "Or how they are made." Said in a way that made it clear this was the first time she had really considered the mechanics.
RE: npx run migrate - Defne - October 23, 2025
Defne sighed, shaking her head. She understood to some extent.
You aren't meant to like the act. You do it for growth, status, power.All of which she had gained between her two litters. Then again, that was because she had been lucky.
Both of my husbands were horrible at it, I've never been so bored.
But children, they are sweet. Better when they are your own.Nobody really liked puppies that weren't from their own line, you weren't meant to.
They love you unconditionally while they're young, and if you raise them right they care for you after they grow. I wanted more, but Kemal's father refused.She still resented Kaan for that. Now she might never have another chance.
It was strange to imagine that some women may never want children. To Defne it was, anyways. She couldn't imagine what else they would do with their lives.
RE: npx run migrate - Disa - October 24, 2025
Disa surprised herself with a snort of laughter. She could imagine Defne yawning and watching the path of the sun as some brutish creature humped away behind her.
"There are many men wandering alone," she informed Defne, having met mostly male wolves on her week-long turn about the wilds. "And you are not so old. You can just pick one and use them to have more babies. Maybe you can ask if they are good at it first, so you won't be bored." It seemed like a solid plan.
They were at the foot of the mesa now, and Disa sat, looking up at apartment complex of caves available. She would pick one close to Defne. When she was not deluded, the elder woman was easy company - forthright and plain.
RE: npx run migrate - Defne - October 30, 2025
Defne smiled at Disa's laugh. This one would be a good friend, she decided.
Maybe if the right one comes along. My first was weak, then I married Kaan once he showed his strength. Much more promising, and a much better life after - I know I have to be picky.After all, what was the point of trying to have more children just to raise them alone in a rain-flooded den? A man with no ambition was completely unattractive.
For now I'll stay here and help Kemal raise his children. Maybe convince him to take on a few more wives too, my choosing this time.
I think I'll lay down, get the sun off my back.She decided,
let's chat again soon Disa.
RE: npx run migrate - Disa - November 05, 2025
Disa stares at the back of Defne's head as she ambled toward the mesa's shadow - short this time of day, clinging to the mountain's edges like a child at its mother's skirt. When the older woman was out of sight, she turned her attention to the stone monument once more. She would scale it eventually, find a den. For now, she would explore the lake.