Blackfeather Woods primordial state of chaos

She came and plucked the stone from the altar, and as it moved he followed it with his eye, his expression growing a little more intense the further it went from him; but then Relmyna sank low and welcomed him to sit with her. He did, mirroring her so that their forelimbs created a diamond with the stone between them. The rock was swirling with energy, calling to him, and when the Listener pushed the stone towards him, he relaxed.

The energy of the stone drew his attention foremost, and he watched it as if it were some great artifact; Mou had no such spirituality inherent to his character but his connection to the forest, to Maegi, and to Sithis seemed to grow with every moment he spent among the trees, making it difficult for him to separate himself from the moment. The stone was watching him as if it were an eye — perhaps the eye of Sithis himself — and suddenly things began to make sense (in the way that a fiending addict might connect the dots of a great mystery that only they could unveil).

Mou dipped his face close to the stone, and with a sickening pop, lodged the smooth stone within the empty concave where his eye once sat. It wasn't a comfortable fit and he blinked furiously, squeezing his eyes shut and opening them over and over, until his eyelid fell in to place, but even then the object was obviously not a perfect fit. It stayed lodged there though — and when he lifted his head again, he stared back at Relmyna with one golden eye and one steadfast orb of conglomerate.