peace will win and fear will lose

OOC: Being vague about what Jinx knows of Akhlut so far!

IC: Her pause appeared to be well placed. The thanks was welcome, though Jinx would have preferred apology for the former mockery of her beliefs, but thanks was accepted in its place. The next was more interesting, for Jinx had done little investigation into Akhlut himself. She knew him to be capable, yes, perhaps strong and well-bred, and she had placed her services at his disposal, but of one another, they knew little. Akhlut was most certainly a wolf of Atka's light, and Jinx preferred Sos' darkness, but that did not make them opposites, for without one the other could not be.

However, there was a natural inclination toward binary opposition, and Jinx could understand why. The balance had been tipped, first in Atka's favour and now in Sos', so the gods were tense toward one another... Nutaaq would have had answers, if he were there. "It does not," she answered after a moment of thinking. "Atka is my god, too, though I choose to pay homage to Sos primarily. Others choose Atka primarily. My mother and sister are among those who call her Primary." The last word came out sharply; Jinx would forever feel forsaken by Atka, whom she had done all she could to earn the favour of, and failed. Sos had found her instead... And that was for the better, but a Kesuk could hold a wild grudge, and Jinx did.

"He knows only what he must, and nothing more. I do not know him well and it is not prudent to share secrets with strangers." Here she revealed something private, and also important: that she was, in some ways, as misleading as her god. It was not meant to explain any of her former actions - Jinx would never betray wolves that followed her, and had not deceived Bon Dye - but she made it clear, curiously, that she would keep Akhlut in the dark until such a time as she saw fit to reveal her belief. Perhaps it was to keep her god her own, or perhaps because she, like Hawkeye, had sensed light in him, and did not believe he would take kindly to her voodoo as her family did... Whatever it was, she said no more on it, other than, "it will be him who decides how to wield his light. Light should be used to amplify darkness and bring it to power in the right places, not to chase it away. Without Sos there is no Atka, without Atka, no Sos. One may outdo the other, but both are always present."