Larksong Grotto the bazaar of bad dreams

@Hiram maybe? also open to @Indra & @Laurel

reek had returned, and what was more, jhala had come into her season. vuk was not so stupid as to believe that the cult-follower would resist the siren call of a willing female, and she berated him inwardly for his hypocrisy. and beneath her anger, there was the raw, open wound of rejection, of his betrayal, of all that he had said to her before he had departed.

but come back he had, and with children in tow -- so she assumed. the woman, who had not slept for days since seff had gone missing, made her bedraggled way toward the grotto, outside which he paused before singing a single note. her pelt was unkempt and her ribs visible; she needed desperately the distraction of reek's children, but hoped she would not see jhala.

not now.

not when the woman knew she herself had loved hiram.