Cerulean Cape a world within a world

"Mother left food and herbs, and said prayers," Esma explained, not revealing that is some cases she had returned to the makeshift altars and stolen the food. In the beginning she had feared a retaliation from the gods themselves and had spent a many night, having nightmares of bears coming to fetch her. But as the days passed and she lost the count of days she had gone to snack on the food, no bears appeared. Rather than taking this as a proof that these gods do not exist, she assumed that they had far more important things to do than to care about one scrawny wolf-pup.

"I do not know, what they like. How can you know, if you have never seen them and asked them?" she shrugged and responded with a question of her own. Maybe Sobeille knew a trick or two about life that Esma did not. There was a lot she did not know.