Stavanger Bay we gather in shadow and ash

Hello everyone! This is a mandatory pack meeting - but it should only last a round or two. Please try to reply in a timely manner. @Julep @Isengrim @Rouge @Muses @Sage. Sandpiper is also invited, but I don't see her in the ranks so it's really up to you, Hero.

The pain flared, brief but bright, across her cheeks and down along her jaws. She would never see the marks clearly, but they would forever lie upon her face: two horizontal slashes on each side, one set close under her eyes and the other mirroring each other on the line of her jaw. Like Szymon, her blood streamed down into the water, and tiny fish began to gather around them, feeding.

For the moment, the sea had been calmed. Doe gazed up at her husband, eyes shining with love and relief. She, too, practiced the faith for her husband's sake, but it was so deeply ingrained, now. So natural. So real. In that moment, she believed in the Wickedness and the power She held over their lives, and she believed that she and Szymon had been blessed once more.

Tilting back her head, Doe called for their packmates, wanting them to partake in this moment of peace. Come out, and come into the water, she howled, and there was something a little like sorrow and a lot like hope in her voice.