Ankyra Sound because i believe in you more than i ever believed in me.

it’d taken days for miette to give up all hope. she’d tried in every way to scale the drop she’d jumped down — but the tunnel’s face was too steep, and her stature too short.

what was an easy jump for a full grown wolf or a tall yearling was insurmountable for short sobeille dahomey-riviani. the irony was that this embankment had served as a natural baby-gate for caiaphas’ only litter. now, it sealed in caiaphas’ great granddaughter.

miette cursed the stones. she cursed caiaphas. she cursed the grotto and its loa. and finally, she cursed her own stupidity, falling to bitter sleep.

she woke to the sound of footsteps. unfurling slowly, miette blinked as the shape of her friend seemed to materialize from the cave walls.

astera?