Blackwater Islands verdict

eat the berries.

she moved closer, circling around the perimeter of the circle of bones. she touched her nose to each bone as she passed it, murmuring prayers to her god. her voice grew progressively louder, and when she completed the circle it rose to a haunting, wordless siren-song.

she sang endlessly as she circled. her eyes were trained on eldritch, watchful.

when the woman began to show signs that the berries had entered her blood, the ritual would begin.

the berries are hallucinogenic with side effects of lethargy, dehydration, migraines, & possible death at high doses. in this case, eldritch has been given a fatal dose in order to make her passing easier during the ritual <3 though this is just a guess on the listener's part and she did not necessarily intend it to be fatal