Dark Offerings

She shared her brother's belief that the dark gods had spared her from the cold hands of death, though through her sickness she felt as if she might die. Eldritch looks at her in disbelief, but a deep-rooted relief is also in his wide, pale gaze. Shock fades into a warm welcome as Eldritch grins, "Perhaps they heard mine as well, Eldritch." She peered at his wagon, sniffing the air curiously and scenting blood beneath that gorgeous pelt. As her brother offered her a submissive bow, Lurid's tail rose to wave stiffly above her hips in her typical dominant fashion. "It would seem they were. I, for one, am glad of it." She said with a smile, and a dip of her own head, just slightly to acknowledge his bow.

When he rises, he closes the distance between them, Lurid allowing and welcoming his hug and returning the gesture with a great squeeze of her own. She had missed all of her siblings and hoped that one day they would be together again. Sitting there she held her smaller brother, reassuring him that she was in fact alive and well - sort of. When they finally parted, Eldritch explained what he had been through without prompting from Lurid. He knew she would want to know, and so he told her everything. Then he revealed what was beneath that perfect obsidian pelt. Eldritch knew of her dark appetite, so perhaps he wouldn't mind if she took one of the heart-shaped packages for herself. The moonlit goddess could use a snack. "One of those is for me, yes?" She asked him expectantly, licking her lips a little. He turned to her then, asking what happened to her.

Lurid pursed her lips, then relaxed them with a sigh. "I fell ill, brother. I disappeared because I couldn't let the pack or my family see me sick. Atropos caught me sneaking away and demanded that she go with me. With her knowledge of herbs and medicines, I would have been stupid not to keep her along. She fed me all sorts of nasty concoctions...She is lost as well. We must find her, Eldritch." She was stronger than ever now, however. This time they would move south, "Requiem and I are moving the family south. This is not the right climate for our Mirovis." Requiem had been the first wolf to find her, as was only fitting of their Haihefa, the Dread Father of the pack. Lurid knew her family had been shocked by her absence, and she had even disappeared away from Atropos. "Come, let us find our sisters and bring our family together once again." She gave him one more hug, then began to lead the way to the Soulless Forest.