Blackfoot Forest A Place to Belong

When he clarified, Pied nodded, then succumbed to a spontaneous yawn that wrenched her jaws apart and caused her pink tongue to curl out over her fangs. Once it passed, she closed her mouth and shook her head with a light, "Excuse me," and then fell silent as she pondered what details to share. She wanted to keep things simple but informative.

"Sos is the dark bear and Atka is the light bear," she started. "Then there are the four Loa: Ogoun, Bade, Agwe and Loco. Everything is sort of elemental and it all balances. For instance, the Ogoun represent Fire and they're the first servants under Sos, as far as I understand it. It's all relatively new to me," she explained as a sideline. "The Bade represent Wind and are Sos's seconds. Then there's Agwe, or Water, and Loco, the Earth, underneath Atka. I'm an Agwe'en."

These details only scratched the surface of Bon Dye. Pied didn't mention the penchant for darker activities, which she'd never experienced for herself in any case. She didn't mention a lot of things. The bit of information she'd just given was about as detailed as she was willing to get; the rest were trade secrets, after all.

"Any questions?" she prompted after a beat of silence, her tail swaying slightly over the ground.