<div class="floatleft">(http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/ae282/caela_ecub/Brunettes/da38251a-f295-4cd0-bed4-5bcc718adfae_zps23deb5af.jpg) (http://s980.photobucket.com/user/caela_ecub/media/Brunettes/da38251a-f295-4cd0-bed4-5bcc718adfae_zps23deb5af.jpg.html)</div><strong>Character Name:</strong>Eira<br/><strong>Who:</strong>Ts'udzagha Zhergan<br/><strong>Where:</strong>In a Cave<br/><strong>When:</strong>Evening, 8th day of the Hunger Moon<br/><hr/><br/>She believed him. She didn't know why, it wasn't as if he shared his story with her, yet she believed him. He spoke like a man who knew what he was saying, a man who'd experienced...something. When he said revenge could be as much a cage as slavery, she believed that he believed it. With rage still burning through her like a fire though, it was hard to believe it for herself. The longer he talked about it however, the more she let other thoughts slip into her mind. Her mother. Her friends. The life she'd wanted before it had all been ripped away from her, and some of that fury slid away with those thoughts. It was hard to hold murder and her Mother in her heart at the same time.<br/><br/>And then he said something that made everything in her body go utterly still. He'd said he was going to let her go. For a long moment all she could do was sit and stare at him in shock. She'd been certain that come morning he would drag her back to whatever punishment awaited a runaway Sacrifice. Or that he would lecture her, try to make her see that her slavery wasn't slavery at all, that she was, somehow, a part of the Pack; even though she knew she wasn't. He hadn't done any of that, he'd said she could go, and that he'd help her find the path.<br/><br/>Curling back down onto her side, she was still staring at him through the flickering light of their small fire when she murmured, "Thank you."<br/><br/>She didn't know what else to say and so she simply did as she was told and let her eyes close, letting sleep take her so that she would be ready when morning came and she had to trudge on through the snow.