Veteran's Plateau Altar

Chade had been surprised and curious when Ricin told him of the statues that had cropped up.  It was both strange and oddly familiar with the magic of the land showing up once again.  The magical sense of autumn that came on them as they got closer to the statue was fascinating.  Chade and Ricin had been cast out of their pack as young pups during the eternal night.  It felt like forever ago but the memories of then were forever lodged in his mind.  They had met a ghost back then, a true ghost who had talked with them and told them about the land's magic.  Chade never decided how much he believed but certainly ghosts and magic were both real.  

Walking across the lands Chade’s brows rose a bit at the pools of blood and finally, they got to the statue.  Chade would always label Ricin as the one with a wild imagination yet for all the statue appeared to be of stone, with the way it had just shown up Chade found himself wondering if there was a true spirit that was either in the stone wolf or watched over it.  Like a carved picture of a powerful spirit.  

Chade hadn’t bought anything at the markets, his mind running over what to do.  Once they were close Chade had them pause long enough so that the blue wolf could kill a rabbit.  The corpse was taken the rest of the way.  He waited for Ry to finish offering his items.  The shield was an impressive sight to Chade and looked quite fitting with the large statue.

Chade moved to the statue, tearing open the rabbit's corpse a bit more, “As a warrior and hunter I would grow wary if the taste of fresh blood could never touch my muzzle.”  The wolf statue was absurdly huge and Chade was no small wolf.  Dipping a paw into the rabbit, the red blood stood out keenly on the dark blue paw.  Standing on his back legs, chade’s paw runs along the side of the stone wolf's muzzle.  “May the taste of blood never leave your jaws.” Dropping back to the ground he nudged the corpse to the familiars, “and a gift to all of you since you seem so busy.”

Chade had already gotten Ricin’s permission earlier and when Chade moved to his light-toned brother Ry raised his paw and Chade placed his teeth over the leg where the fur was thin and slowly put on pressure till he felt a bit of skin give, a thin line of blood-forming and Chade followed it up to bite low on his own leg.  He took the blood from himself and Ricin and pressed it onto the feet of the statue.  In case the spirit of the wolf did exist, or even just for the familiars, he added, “I was told that one’s blood can help connect to the spirit of the earth.  Now our blood is shared with you. May your spirit feel the enjoyment of when we run across the earth, or when we feast on a fresh kill or protect the pack from any predator foolish enough to challenge it.”  A nod to it and the familiars before looking at Ricin so that they could head back.

"Chade & Ricin"