Ankyra Sound The Insomniac

she watched him for some time before he noticed her. during that length caipahas thought back on atlas, who had been sucked out sea like the brutal pop of a tree during a hurricane. she had thought often since witnessing his figure helpless in the water that if there was any order to the world it was only the order of death.

as reek pulled towards her, a sopping skeleton (his wet fur held down all the more articulated his threadbare frame) she pulled her ears forwards in interest. she always expected honesty with her subordinates, yet his utterance surprised her.

"you'd be stupid not to be." she growled in reply, casting her feral gaze across the tumultuous water. "as it is, we cannot allow enemies to live so close to us and steal our members with impunity." she sighed -- the prospect of death did not entirely scare her, and she was selfish in that she would have subjected a million lives to get what she wanted. "the goddesses will deliver justice, to whomever that may be."