Dragoncrest Cliffs [m] there's no more searching for answers

this had taken an unexpected turn.

miette had never observed someone in an altered state of mind before.

she listened, mesmerized.

and learned from this little encounter that people could be pried open like clam shells; their soft underpinnings exposed with a little help from a flower!

but maleah's past was terribly sad. miette's brow furrowed, wondering about this bad woman and how she'd caused a network of grief by living the only life she knew.

maybe this is how loa were born.

maleah's body curled in on itself. miette patted the flat of her arm. why you give dat lady any of your energy? she be gone n' ded. mebbe she be a loa, but you don't gotta think of her no more. saffique is your home, not dat lady and her bad juju.