Redtail Rise the final braincell

and thus, the girl became a woman—

ha! 

Avicus had entered adulthood upon drawing her first blood, and when had that been? early enough; she vividly remembers grasping at a man's throat, of fading into blackness and yet! her mother that day had been avenged.

no, this man's claim upon her body means nothing but a furtherance of her education; she bears it patiently enough, and when it is over, she turns to him.

a little sore, a tad unsteady. but her eyes meet his dead-on.

okay, she says, her tone still brusque. but the touch has, at least, unlocked something primal within her, and she lunges at him without warning, snapping playfully but intently at his shoulder with gleaming fangs.