Challenge #04825-M076: Cold Comfort

The god was not angry at Wraithvine and the child, but it was angry. A cold anger of betrayal. It was also angry a child had been used. The cold spurred them on, but while it could, it did not freeze them, and did not make the child AS cold. Its curse would last until its eye was restored, it was restored to where it came from, its betrayers were delt with, and justice was served. Which order? Who knew?

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04780-m031-gifted-a-curse -- Anon Guest

If there was one thing for certain, Ereshkygal definitely frowned on child sacrifices. She hated that Girra had been used to hand the curse of Boreas' one-eyed idol to Wraithvine. The Hostess of All had wrapped her protective wings around the child and was - metaphorically speaking - hissing at the new cat invading her house.

Well. Her devotee.

Ze didn't need two gods facing off like cats on top of the chill of the curse creeping into hir bones. Wraithvine was encouraged to move North as quickly as ze could manage. Stopping only to make sure Girra had enough to keep her comfortable in the cold. Hir tower always had shelter from the wind and snow, but ze could not get warm.

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