Seaside Moors and all my body shakes,

cameo <3

Raleska had missed the first cry that split the stormy skies, but by the time Erzulie had retired to her den and whelped, Raleska arrived. She had been thinking at length of all the maven had provided for her - not just in her company, but in her words. In her wisdom, experience. She knew nothing of childbearing or the exhaustion that it entailed, but she had wanted to leave something as a token -- and so, arrived belatedly with a seal's flipper in her jaws.


She saw Nieve pacing in the distance, and watched as Rosalyn's form slipped into the den. Understanding the unspoken taboo, Raleska did not come close -- but she placed the seal's meaty tail near the entrance, and then prowled off to join Nieve in her rovings up and down the strand.