on the coldest night of the year // gift giving

[ninazu]

BURN
BRIGHT

The lioness nodded to the two as they appeared, glancing down at the gifts clustered around her paws. She identified Sojourn’s—her childrens’ gifts clustered to form their own pile—at once. Picking out a gift suitable to Brutei took more effort, less because of how much effort she’d put into the gift and more because of how the ice demon and her weren’t especially close. Would he like anything? And generic things like soaps or candles could mean she implied he needed to bathe more often.

She jumped down from the boulder, crunching the snow beneath her paws. As she grasped the two gifts in her jaws, the green flames swirling around her neck faded out, least she burn either by accident.

Ninazu walked to Sojourn, her grin flashing in her golden eyes even if her maw didn’t show it. She set the package, a small bundle wrapped in soft blue rabbit fur, in front of her daughter. When Sojourn opened it, the younger lioness would find a gold and turquoise necklace and a few other gold pieces within. They’d been taken from the Typhoon a few months prior, and Ninazu’d stashed them for this particular occasion, as she knew the majority of her children liked such things. “I hope you like them. At the very least, the fur would make a nice decoration.”

Next, she walked over to Brutei and dropped a chonk of a parcel in front of his paws. “Honestly, I wasn’t sure what you’d like.” Within the white rabbit fur, she’d included: a book of of Edgar Allen Poe’s collected poems, a small carving of his previous body, and a grey scarf.


[member=16709]SOJOURN[/member] [member=16137]Brutei Tsune[/member]

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