Sun Mote Copse Can you feel the Schadenfreude?

giana's greeting did not go ignored; eshamun turned her attention briefly from the man to glance into the depths of the woman's eyes, and knowledge came to her. flattered by this, the ekar-aji then touched her muzzle to asherah's cheek. at last the man who had answered her question was given her attention, and the canaanite gazed full upon him before she answered. "a doctor. a man of medicine." she paused. "as you can see, children shall be born unto us soon, bastian. have you knowledge of children?"

and molech. "as asherah has said, we worship the eight-armed one here. molech is the one who has given us this land, and the malkaria has paid for it in blood." at the revelation, eshamun's expression tightened somewhat, but smoothed in the next instant. "to live among us is to know molech, to respect our laws, and to be second to women at all times. among the malkaria, your sex means you are a servant, needed, given a role, but you are not a woman."