Dragoncrest Cliffs the purloined letter

nyra. killing theirs. erzulie's muscles flexed, for what represented one threat to them could mean more to others.
rosalyn was steadfast. avicus strengthened her case. and the former obsidian felt the old, old restlessness in her: for fighting. for war.
"de decision do not be ours. i know mine, cherie." and she exchanged a firm look with the younger woman. "but we do not be speakin' for sapphique."
she stepped back, tilted her crown to call for @Chacal. mireille was not a mother; she did not understand what was at stake. and sobo was a man, her son, her boy. a child of these shores. but this was a talk for mothers who knew that the backlash might be upon their children.
sobo and mireille would be included in whatever decisionmaking came next. the initial order — or denial — must come from chacal.