From the bones

Lia had finished making breakfast for herself and her Lady, and Briar had bounded off to start her training for the day. Lia was bustling about cleaning up the remains outside the den, and was preparing to bury the bones. As she picked up a rib, the sudden weight of it caught her by surprise. Looking at the bone in her hand, she found two budding little crystals growing right into the bone.

She stared in horror, and gagged a little. For as she watched, the crystal began to glow. They had eaten the meat off those bones, surely that hadn’t been there just twenty minutes prior? They would have felt the sharpness of the crystal on their teeth. She dropped the crystal in horror and backed up. So caught in her surprise she hadn’t realised another wolf had approached. Stepping on his front paws she squealed in surprise and whirled. Only to find a towering man behind her. “Oh! Excuse me, I’m so sorry” she apologised, scrambling to find the right words of politeness among her already scrambled thoughts.


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