Of course... There is still so much I am learning as well. Now, thanks to you. It wasn't often that she really did take note of how other packs worked. Truthfully, because they all fell within the same lines and ranks. Of course, they had their devotions, and she was sure there was something that made them different from all the others, but Aelia was also uneducated on that kind of thing. She never strayed too far from home when she lived in the Highlands. This trip down South had been purely for the Dream Visitor and Amaris (and the girl who followed with him). But she was glad she'd taken it. She'd gotten to see that there was much more to the world than a land of endless grassy plains bordered by mountainous heights.

Then, he went on to explain what a 'sesh' did. He did mend mortals, but sometimes of evil spirits — like her mothers and kin. And then, it went into a more spiritually developed role; she found herself interested in that, too. Wow. Honestly, your profession sounds like some of our own back home. My mothers and older sisters have worked a ritual before to banish evil spirits from my older brother once. It felt very odd saying that out loud, and to some she would sound loony, but maybe Setemhotep would find it interesting enough to keep talking to her.

The question is redirected towards her, and Aelia, who was often fond of the spotlight, found herself nervous. I... Well, yes. I do. She straightened up a little bit, a bit proud of herself for this. It had taken her a bit to access her own "power". Just as Amaya had her bone readings and Amaris's watery visions of the future, she could see the shimmering of the auras that creatures projected. You see my sisters...

Something distracts the Daystar. A whiff of something recently deceased, not quite yet rotten. Where it came from, all of a sudden, she had no clue, but nothing in her objected to the weirdness of it. Aelia lifted herself off the ground, unable to resist the pull of it — her curiosity that had been invested in Setemhotep was now redirected towards the carcass that lay not far. The Five either do not see her beneath the whispering sequioas or are unable to reach her through the parasite's pull. Nothing tries to stop her yet as she reaches to take a bite —