Ankyra Sound and if the devil was to ever see you

the girl draped in a pelage of sandy, rose gold — one eyed and with a twisted forepaw — approaches him boldly. this surprises ingram who rather thinks his demeanor is far from approachable. his ears flutter back against his skull, but hesitation as he watches her watch him. she is roughly around his age, if he had to guess ...and he draws in the scents that cling to her pelage but is unable to place name to scents.

these are not toys. not for chewing. he tells her gruffly when his seaglass gaze takes in the way she looks at them. they are embiklaka, the trigedasleng sounds like the serrated edge of a knife as it leaves his lips: a melding of two words into one. prophecy bones. he offers a translation a heartbeat later, assuming that not many ...if any speak praimfaya's tongue here.

not anymore, at least.

why he clings to it, given how he resented his mother ...ingram did not know and assumed it was because of wanlida's spirit taking his body as host; but these observations were for another day, another time.