Two Eyes Cenote [m] Adder

Redated for August 1st

This, however, was not a good dog.

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The beast met her gaze evenly, its eyes passing between the twin funeral pyre embers that flickered with wild swirls of emotion. Listening. Listening. Listening with ears that twitched back and forth. Eira. The name stung like a dagger, sharp and unexpected. It should not have been surprised; it knew this was coming, but it could not suppress the sharp inhale at the woman's name.

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You know little of which you speak, Hebsut It growled, a low, angry rumble in its throat.

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I want something—an item in my room, came the serpent's voice from the porthole, smoother than would be expected. Let me retrieve it, and I will answer any question you have, it offered, giving a slight shake to its head as if to startle away an insect.

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A pause, the silence stretching taut like a wire. The beast's eyes narrowed, its breath steadying as it fought to keep the fog at bay, the pound of its frantic heart at a minimum. The world around it seemed to blur and fade, there was nothing else, only it and the woman on the other side of the wall.

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I swear I will not run, the beast vowed, its gaze unwavering, a flicker of sincerity in its otherwise monstrous eyes.

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