Moonspear the dark age
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Fennec was missing. The Witch of the Glen. Good or bad, Sialuk was still not certain. This, she decided, was the perfect chance to flex her skills. She wondered if it would be easier or harder to get an answer from the bones because Fennec was a witch. Was she more in tune with them because of it? Would she try to hide the answer from her? Sialuk was not sure, but the thought of asking the bones was downright thrilling. Perhaps she could actually put this skill to use for the pack.

Sixsix perched on a log in front of her, and Sialuk held the bag of bones in her teeth. Gently, she began to shake them, forming the question in her mind. "Where is Fennec? Where is Fennec? Where is Fennec?" Over and over she heard the words in her mind until she could feel them solidify between her ears. They took on a life of their own, and she pushed them down into the bag, into the bones.

Once there, Sialuk let go, and the bag fell to the ground, opening and revealing their answer. Since she had come into possession of them, Sialuk had named each bone to keep its meaning (or meanings, in most cases). It was slow going, and while she didn't completely understand each one, she felt she was starting to get the hang of it.

None of the messages she saw in the bones were particularly good signs. There was the bone that meant travel (obviously, because Fennec must have traveled away from Moonspear and Firefly Glen). There was the bone that meant a great bounty had been lost. And finally, there was the bone that Sialuk had a harder time interpreting, and she spent the longest time on that one.

The final bone that had set itself with the other two was a relatively powerful one. Sialuk likened it to the leader of the glen: Osiris. But the way the bone was situated made it seem like he was unhappy. That wasn't all that surprising once she fit it into the puzzle. Of course he'd be unhappy that one of the glen's members was missing.

So what was the great bounty that had been lost, and how was that supposed to tell her where Fennec had gone?

Sixsix squawked at her, and Sialuk gave them a pointed look.

Can't you give me a hint? she asked. She had always used her mother's language to speak to the bird. It seemed more appropriate than the words the rest of Moonspear used.

The bird said nothing more, and it promptly flew away.
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the dark age - by Sialuk - November 24, 2020, 10:03 PM
RE: the dark age - by Norah - November 25, 2020, 04:45 PM
RE: the dark age - by Sialuk - November 29, 2020, 05:10 PM
RE: the dark age - by Norah - November 30, 2020, 04:13 PM
RE: the dark age - by Sialuk - November 30, 2020, 07:19 PM
RE: the dark age - by Norah - December 10, 2020, 02:42 PM
RE: the dark age - by Sialuk - December 10, 2020, 04:06 PM
RE: the dark age - by Norah - December 12, 2020, 05:11 PM
RE: the dark age - by Sialuk - December 16, 2020, 09:25 PM
RE: the dark age - by Norah - December 26, 2020, 04:50 PM
RE: the dark age - by Sialuk - January 10, 2021, 03:11 PM
RE: the dark age - by Norah - January 12, 2021, 04:06 PM