March 18, 2023, 09:08 AM
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2023, 12:01 PM by Black Wing On The Wind.)
she was stirred in the soul by promise of food, and the sheep - thick-wooled and curl-horned - saw what must've been a demon, dancing around them as a greater wolf felled their line-mother.
they would bleat farewells to the old ewe, then retreat mountainwise.
( some stopping to shake horns at the sickly black shadow what twirled and cackled between them and the grisly scene, but no help would reach the ewe. )
when her gjørmejeger brought the sheep down, she whooped a howl. hopping as a mockery of what was killed, eurmal brought herself nearer.
she would again bend back and tail, and approach and retreat from the kill, testing the generosity of this hunter.
when no resistance came, she'd dive into the thin skin of armpit, gutting the kill.
her teeth would turn brighter red than her eyes.
they would bleat farewells to the old ewe, then retreat mountainwise.
( some stopping to shake horns at the sickly black shadow what twirled and cackled between them and the grisly scene, but no help would reach the ewe. )
when her gjørmejeger brought the sheep down, she whooped a howl. hopping as a mockery of what was killed, eurmal brought herself nearer.
she would again bend back and tail, and approach and retreat from the kill, testing the generosity of this hunter.
when no resistance came, she'd dive into the thin skin of armpit, gutting the kill.
her teeth would turn brighter red than her eyes.
unreliable narrator
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I'[m] running out of all the ways to lie to myself - by Reyson - March 07, 2023, 06:32 PM
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