[PRP] A new moon ritual ( Imp and Salvador)

[Ovarian Paint]

The sky was dark, and the leopardess danced around as the flash of lightening bugs moved around her. She chanted to the dark shadows that seemed to move around her, paws in the air as she used a jar of sea glass to capture some of the glowing bugs within it. She spun and caught a few more, the others only continued to flicker around her, the little flashes of light making her markings spark to life as she moved in the darkness.
With a cork of tree bark, she plugged up the round jar and placed it at her paws, she reached into one of the skull bowls she had laid out, and tossed the contents into the air, a heavy herb scent filled the air around her as she continued with the ritual, a flash of claw as she sliced her own paw pad and bathed the jar containing the lightning bugs in blood, she lifted her muzzle towards the sky and let out a sultry cry in offering the orange hued moon that hung heavy in the sky.

Saint Sergio

 

[Bronze Coffee]

Salvador sighed heavily as he jumped down from the branch he had been perched on. He'd dragged his latest kill up there, ate it, and was now looking for something to drink, or possibly just so company. Despite how often he was alone, Salvador didn't enjoy it all of the time. Squinting his brown eyes, the leopard wandered away from his tree.

He'd been content in the dark, happy that the sun was down because it got a bit warm. Not uncomfortably so, but right now the leopard wanted to be cold. Winter was around the corner and he was grinning like an idiot just thinking about it.

It was uneventfuil until he caught sight of a white face around some lightening bugs. Oh, fun! He moved towards her until he her cry out and then he narrowed his eyes.

"You should be careful!" Salvador's natural tone was loud. So he was even louder trying to get her attention before he stopped in front of her. "There are hyenas about. They like the smell of blood."

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[Ovarian Paint]

At his shout, she turned her glowing gaze towards him and laughed with a smile. "They know better than to trespass onto my land." She licked the wound on her paw before she carefully picked her way over to the tree with skulls scattered at the base.

She eyed a few of the over turned skulls before using her uninjured paw to rub a balm over the bleeding pad, and waiting for it to harden before she placed it on the earth.

"They fear the shadows in these parts, as they should." She turn back to him. "Though thank you for the warning." she bowed her head lightly to him, eyes flashing.

Saint Sergio

 

[Bronze Coffee]

"Shadows are nothing to fear! The humans are something to fear. The dark? That's the best time. Hunting is good." He never understood the fear of the dark. It didn't bring anything but good things to him. Food, apparently company.

Her paw had been bleeding and he watched her rub a balm over it. It had a strong smell and caused him to wrinkle his nose a bit. "Why should they fear you? You are only one leopardess!" Obviously if there was a coalition or pride nearby he hadn't heard about it. He'd only recently escaped after all. Salvador sat himself down ad curled his stripped tail around his paws before looking to her jar again. "Why are you catching these?"

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[Ovarian Paint]

"Oh there are plenty of things to fear in the shadows, specially if you've sniffed at something you shouldnt have, and the shadows come alive and are after you." She said with a rolled of her shoulders, she was a superstitious leopardess and she did not question the workings of the shadows or the spirits within them.

"Or perhaps you've angered a spirit within the shadow realm and they do not take kind to insults." She sat down now, as she eyed the flickering lights in the jar, soon they would die from lack of air.

"I need their glowing ends to dry out and grind up." She said, offering little more. "And yes, humans are very dangerous creatures but they too fear what is unknown in the shadows."

Saint Sergio

 

[Bronze Coffee]

Shadows came alive? He looked confused at that and then frowned. That didn't sound right. Things attacked you not the shadows. He wasn't very superstitious and took things a bit too literally sometimes. Maybe Salvador was reading too much into this. He looked at the leopardess with that same frown on his lips.

Instead he focused on the lightening bugs and hummed. "So you need them to die and... use the glowing for... the balm you used on your paw?" Then she agreed about the humans and squinted a little more. "They use fire to light the way. I hate humans."

Sighing a little more, he realized he hadn't introduced himself and straightened up a bit. "I am Salvador! I fear no shadows or darkness."

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