The Bracken Woods vii: curses

for @Delight? no pressure, know you're busy! but maybe they can have that convo about gender we discussed a while ago :)

 

for all intents and purposes, she was a member of this sanctuary. their border scent cloaks her pelt. she still fraternizes with their members (the women, of course). she contributes, if only a marginal amount, to their caches.

but it is in name only that Kaali has any allegiance to this place. truly, she hates it.

she hates the near-sighted choice she made when she dropped everything to follow Olive and Seabreeze. she could have stayed with the girl in the mountains, she could have continued her quest around the wilds, picking off victims when she could;

she could have fucked off until winter, and it would be comparable to this.

but now she was duty-bound to this place, and to the white priestess she'd silently sworn allegiance too. every morning, she curses herself for it. for falling head-over-heels so easily, with any pretty face and soft voice she encounters. she curses her soft heart for opening so readily to her sisters.

and she curses the men who run this place--

for without their presence, she would be content. just she, Olive, Seabreeze, and the babes.

their odorous presence here clouds every moment of her existence, and she fantasizes about slaughtering them when they sleep. if only the women she loves could live with that chaos--could welcome it, instead of the wrath they'd surely incur upon Kaali.

she curses them, too, for their ready acceptance of their saviors captors.