crimson dappled

Can this be after the interrogation quest threads with Kove as well? Happy 250th post!

It was the scream that woke her and her children up. A terrified scream, akin to the one haunting the swamps. Her pups responded the only way they could, with cries of their own. She wanted to go investigate, but she had to calm the frightened children down first. Once they had settled in the nest, whimpering softly but drifting off to sleep, then she went towards the sound.

The dark priestess went deep into Mephala's Web, towards the creek to find a bloodied white furball sitting besides the underground waterway, staring into her reflection. The hostage. Kove had gotten information about her, that her name was Star, from Swiftcurrent. He had promised her that no one would know, but of course that was a lie. She knew everything he had gotten from her.

She walked closer to the small wolf, but kept in the shadows, keeping herself hidden for the time being. The hostage had interesting wounds; a spiral with a line through it, carved deep onto her shoulder, bloody marks through her pawpads, red bite and clawmarks all over her body and to top it off, a bloody red pawprint, like the one on her Dark Brothers and Sister's shoulder. They looked very recent, but who delievered them she had no say. It could be any one of her more bloodthirsty members: Kadence, Bane, Crescendo, perhaps even the new member Grimnir. The latter might be unlikely, since he seemed more of a killer than a torturer.

"Your wounds are far more severe than I thought," she murmured as she parted from the darkness. "Those holes in your pawpads especially."