Dragoncrest Cliffs Let it smoulder

this will be my last, feel free to PP val to close it out. <3

few things could cut val down quicker than a level look from his mother. any protest he had died upon his lips.

each of them were tasked with a decision. it still troubled val that two of sapphique's stalwarts were not here for a say in sapphique's future, but he knew better than to speak again.

he watched as erzulie, mireille, and wing made their votes known first. sobo's answer still rung in his head.

rhaegal moved his piece.

the stone was heavy as val carried it. suzu's optimistic vote moved him, but others voted for poison or chase.

but val knew bears better than any here. he had lived in the bear's shadow his entire life. he had, in ways, been born into it.

he moved his stone to the ever growing pile by the gnarled driftwood. his voice laid alongside sobo's, stingray's, rhaegal's, mireille's.

poison that bastard and kill it where it stands.