Emberwood if he's a king, he's a priest and god too

today merrick called for @Avicus and for @Ashlar. he meant to know the latter; he wished to spend time with the former. and he wished to make of them allies where perhaps the red-girl did not. devout as his child might be, he did not want her to live as her pale aunt did: between this world and the next.
he had found a coyote den in the roots of a tangled tree within a forest that would burn with red hues. merrick circled it with a roughened chuff, glancing to the pair.