Blackfoot Forest while you eggheads is on the wall preparing answers

if val was smart, he would lie.

but he didn't. mereo didn't mean anything to him -- it likely meant a lot more to merrick and aventus, but their time in akashingo had predated val's discovery of them, and he knew nothing of the militaristic outpost.

i'm from ursus. val started, finding the statement strange on his tongue. he wanted so badly to belong there. well, i grew up in sapphique but.. but now he followed bear worshippers. bit by bit, he was becoming assimilated. what's mereo like?