Naaghai Lowlands pupil

ceremony/leaving thread for zoug, @Gaara, and @Andanari; open to anyone else who would come along <3 single posts welcome

in the end, zoug did not wish to enter the land of the way.

he held back. those who would go on were not stopped by the mog-ur.

two raised their voices to step with him from the lands of their birth.

for five days zoug fasted and then he called to them in low voice.

blood ochre, scraped from earth and mixed with sacred water.

mother's blood.

earth's birthing shine.

for their foreheads. for his own.

when we go from this place, we carry with us tribe and we carry clan.

we will keep their secrets.

we will guard our ways.

the desert spirits smile. we give them thanks. we ask that they allow us between the sands, that they see our mark.

and when it is faded, so we are new.

dawn bright; it was with only once glance back that zoug traveled from the naaghai and into a new promise.