Sleepy Fox Hollow we devoured the gods

the question posed puzzled the shadow; did it matter whether their prey shared their physical form? lesser creatures did not gain status simply by mimicking their superiors. eat meat, she clarified, watching the boy carefully. he seemed to understand — but in the end, he held reservations that the shadow lacked, and so the pair sought a different meal to share. the demotion from trio to duo weighed heavily on the shadow, but soon she put it aside, at the behest of the whispering spirits all around. there was no time to linger on that which had been lost; time and fate waited for none.