nascence

her name was thrown to the breeze, carried along on urgent wing.

qiao glanced to @Ephraim and rose stiff-legged. she would allot herself to be summoned only once by these means -- the next time her presence was requested, qiao would remand equitable payment.

s'ari redsand stood before a wolf, fox-faced and robed in crimson and sungold. qiao gasped -- the fox.

alongside s'ari redsand were two coyotes. one bristled with fur that called to mind the surface of an urchin. the other, darker, approached with curled lip and exposed fang.

that pelt is too pretty to dry on the redsands. qiao called to the summery thing. keep it, and run.