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It had been many days since Aderes had left her cliff side home in search to find someone that could tell her what her feelings were. She had never felt this way before, or at least as far as she could remember, and it was beginning to drive her mad. It was getting darker now as the bright sun fell slowly beyond the horizon, painting the sky a crimson hue. Aderes was relieved. She was not used to traveling in the light of day, too many cheery things around to irritate her. She shuddered as she though of how far she was having to stoop in order to relieve herself of the dreams, of the feelings she was experiencing. To ask a lesser for help repulsed Aderes, but she was to the point of desperation.

Aderes knew most Soquili only walked the forests and the fields during the day, and as the light began to fade she knew her search would have to carry on for most likely another day. She paused in the middle of the field she had been traveling in and raised her head to the sky in thought and contemplation, something she rarely did.

The scent of blood hit Aderes' nose before she even spied the winged male floating through the sky. She grinned silently to herself as she saw him, the only living being she had seen that entire day. Aderes followed him as he left, not always keeping him in view, but keeping track of him by the scent of blood. The sound of trickling came from not far ahead; water. Aderes growled and quickened her pace, picking her way carefully so not to make a sound untill the time was right. It was not untill she was only a few yards away from the male, a mixed blood as far as she could tell, that she spoke.

"It smells as though you ate well. It is not often that I come across others like myself that feed on the flesh of others." It was an assumption she had made that he had eaten the flesh of some living creature, for she could not see some visible wounds. For all she knew though he could have gotten in some sort of fight and won. She preferred the idea of feeding though.

"I get out often enough, though even those that feed on the flesh tend to avoid walking into my path. All attempt to avoid me it seems; least their useless lives be cut short a day or so." Aderes grinned, her fangs glistening in the light.

Aderes waded out into the stream, circling the male. She snorted in disgust at the horn on his head; he had the blood of the ignorant plant eaters coursing through his veins. 'What a waste...' She thought to herself as she debated the value of the Soquili before her. "You are part Kalona I presume; it is they who also feast on the the living right?" Though Aderes was quite sure of the names of the different types of Soquili, it was one of the things from her previous life she could not fully remember since she became a skinwalker, since her 'Awakening'.

She paused in her circle, facing him, staring at him with her colorless eyes. "What is your name?" Aderes almost demanded of the male.

"Blood is everything, for the blood that runs through your parents veins runs through yours as well, whether you would like it to or not..." Aderes spat. "Especially for a mutt like yourself. Unicorn I see, sympathetic fools bent for the most part of peace. Normal Soquili it seems as well. And Kalona, flesh eaters, lesser demons, the only other soquili breed I can find the least bit tolerable. I bet you have mixed emotions and feelings about who, or even what you are. Like it, yet hate it."

Aderes began to circle the male, Taint, once more, an almost inaudible growl emitting from deep in her throat. "And questions, boy, are the only things keeping me from trying to eat you." Aderes scowled, each word dripping from her tongue full of malice.

Aderes laughed a little, she had struck a soft spot. "Ah, but you see, I am pure. May only be the remnants of a regular, but pure none the less. I can not be called a mutt, while your mixed parentage has left you nothing more than a blemish on this earth. All in all, you are a mutt, you will never change that."

Aderes snorted at the comment about the pelt on her back. "Have you ever met someone godlike? This pelt was a gift from a two-legger, possessed by the very spirit that made Kalona kind; the Raven Mocker, the death bringer." She smirked coldly, having a little amusing fun twisting what Taint had said. "So if what you said is true, that the entity is indeed a mutt, would not your parent be the mis-fortunate creation of a mutt as well?"

Aderes paused. Cranky; she didn't feel it. She felt something els, but not cranky. "What would you know of my moods?"

"Everyone has a weakness, hence the phrase 'god-like'. I would have thought someone like you could determine the difference between the words god and good-like." Aderes scoffed. "Must be the filthy unicorn blood that runs through your veins that impairs your intellect. That or the ignorant normal soquili blood. After all, any pure blooded kalona would have known the difference." She snorted in disgust as she gazed upon his horn and normal tail once more. "Your parents should have taken mercy on you and killed you rather than let you roam through this world."

She paused and scowled as Taint spoke of the scent that surrounded herself. She could smell no difference in her scent, though she knew it was harder to smell herself than others. "What has the smell that lingers around me have to do with anything?"