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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 5174198" data-attributes="member: 4936">"Let me live?" Silhouette repeated, taken aback by Lyzan's gall. "Let me live?" While she had previously been pleased by the wolf's resilience and perseverance, the joke had now officially worn thin."I am that orb, the moon. When you look at it, you look at me. You fled from my land, your life is my life. I will take it or spare it as I choose."She plucked a silver arrow from her quiver and strode towards the monster that quivered between two shapes. She didn't put the arrow to nock however."You've made this far too interesting, and come too far, just to die now though. I want to see what you do next. So. You will be a great hunter, fearing nothing in the world except me. I'll show you how to finish what you've started, twisting your shape. You can hide among the herd, stalk at your pleasure..."She lashed out, barely pricking the beast's bulging forearm. Even so, blood welled from the scratch."But every hunter is also hunted. Your life comes from me, and I can end it as well."The goddess dropped the bloodied arrow back into her quiver and lifted a hand. "Now."Magic, wild and unfathomable, roared from her palm to engulf Lyzan. Silver runes shone briefly on his furred pelt and vanished again. The great wolf-beast began to change...or perhaps more accurately, the change the wolf had begun, continued. A moment later he was a man standing there, with no trace of the beast he'd been.Silhouette then came closer, almost close enough to touch though just out of reach. She was smiling, almost laughing, though there was a seriousness in her eyes that belied her apparent good mood."You have the wolf you were. I give you man, and every shape in between. But since a hunter needs his prey...I will give you that as well. Somewhere in the world I will make another one like you, but a woman." Her smile broadened, showed the fangs behind the lips. "If you find her before either of you die, then you and yours will be something new in the world. If not...then you will fade away and be forgotten."She nodded, then scowled. "And stop calling me 'little sister,'" she added petulantly. "It's stupid."</blockquote>

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