11-08-2013, 09:56 PM
Ruby feels it, that tugging pull. It's different this time than before, more insistent. She's not surprised to find Javed at her door, or his command.
She isn't used to the wolf-form she takes. It's uncomfortable, like a new pair of shoes, yet to be broken in. But Javed likes to go on foot. It's understandable.
When she gets to the gathering of wolves, she imagines that this is simply something that she has yet to learn, something that her mentor has not explained yet. It's expected.
What's not expected is what happens next.
There is no understanding here, though she does stay silent as Javed, taking her cues from him. Each judgement is more hard than the last. But one of them intrigues, even as it horrifies the others. "When?" a man asks, and a voice responds, "When you atone."
When you atone. It sinks within her, this justice. Why will they not make her atone?
Then, a woman names her crimes, is smeared with blood, and tortured. Ruby doesn't know, but suspects that the woman is intended to die. Someone begins to scream and is dragged down by the others, someone else smashes his skull in with a rock, and she turns to look at that commotion, just once.
It's then that Javed's massive handpaw corrects her, makes her watch.
What has she gotten herself into? Seriously, what?
She isn't used to the wolf-form she takes. It's uncomfortable, like a new pair of shoes, yet to be broken in. But Javed likes to go on foot. It's understandable.
When she gets to the gathering of wolves, she imagines that this is simply something that she has yet to learn, something that her mentor has not explained yet. It's expected.
What's not expected is what happens next.
There is no understanding here, though she does stay silent as Javed, taking her cues from him. Each judgement is more hard than the last. But one of them intrigues, even as it horrifies the others. "When?" a man asks, and a voice responds, "When you atone."
When you atone. It sinks within her, this justice. Why will they not make her atone?
Then, a woman names her crimes, is smeared with blood, and tortured. Ruby doesn't know, but suspects that the woman is intended to die. Someone begins to scream and is dragged down by the others, someone else smashes his skull in with a rock, and she turns to look at that commotion, just once.
It's then that Javed's massive handpaw corrects her, makes her watch.
What has she gotten herself into? Seriously, what?