Blackfeather Woods what we do in the shadows [pup activity]

A little history & lore lesson for the puppies! @Sakhmet @Rowan @Moonshine @Astraea & also tagging mommies @Cassiopeia & @Moonshadow (but really, All Welcome!) Dated July 30, at dusk. First round will end in a week, on August 15.

Maegi was all too aware that she had been lax in her duties here. With so much angst wrapped up around Parvati's betrayal and Ramsay's disappearance, she had kept largely to herself and her babies, shut off from the rest of the pack (the numbers of which were dwindling). The limited ranks disturbed her, but so, too, did her failure to impart her knowledge to the youth of the pack. The wisdom that had been handed down to her.

When had she first learned about Mephala and Sithis? She had been much younger, she remembered, then Moonshadow's children were today. Maegi didn't know if the woman had told her offspring what she knew of the daedra, but even if she had, it was a scant amount compared to the information a Melonii had. Without that knowledge, Blackfeather Woods lost its identity. Without that knowledge, the daedra fell silent.

She reached Nightcaller Temple to the song of crickets, cicadas and evening birds, her pale fur a beacon as dusk fell around her. A dead mouse on the Altar, a quick prayer to Peryite—"guide my tongue, my Lord, my God"—and then Maegi lifted her muzzle in a howl, summoning her children and those of the other mothers in the forest.

Parvati, naturally, was excluded. . .but Maegi didn't think the woman would even have the presence of mind to hear her, much less comprehend the call.

It was time for Maegi to be a teacher again. It had been much too long since her last lesson. And only through imparting this wisdom would she grow, herself, into a better servant of the gods. Only through a shared knowledge would the tenuous threads binding them here together grow stronger, like threads of the heart.