Bad things, and worse things

I was too wounded to move much from my new den - I’m still nursing injuries from two fights - but the fact the Great Hunt had something to do with the Nothing was pretty worrisome. I need to take actions to find this stuff, and work out where this eater is. I need to take the mage into my plan. But that means showing him the Nothing. And that means inviting him over, in my current state. To where I have all my collection. I was pretty nervous about it - I haven’t even showed some of my tribemates some of the things I have, and there’s no real way to keep it secret from him. But the worst - the Ancestor Mirror - is gone.

I just have to trust him enough not to steal Light’s Gift, and a small avalanche of artifacts and bits of magics I’ve collected over the years. And not be freaked out by the scar weapons…

( Much ado about Nothing )

( Don't freak out. Must not freak out... )

It was painfully obvious that I was losing it, and Tail-Eater changed the topic urgently to ask me about some of the things in the cave. He’d noticed the amount of magic at work in the place, and was curious (and didn’t want to talk about the nephandi anymore). I showed him a few of the nicer things (and said nothing about most other things) before sending him on his way with the Nothing and the collar.

That night, I felt some of the dreams about the Nephandi start to creep into my memory. I grabbed the turquoise and rubbed it until I could get those thoughts out of my head. Like the rock’d do anything.

I feel helpless.

Shit.