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Her friend's blood covered her hands, her teeth, her tongue, her lips, it stained under her nails, it dripped down below onto her white dress, long since dirtied with mud and grass. Once, her father had said that to prepare an animal's flesh was to give its life to their goddess, but Hysteria didn't want to give her friend away to any god. Hysteria wanted to keep her friend just as it is, raw and unsightly and coated with red and red and red. Hunting was a holy thing, to Dayspring. But if to be holy meant to abandon all things to Her; maybe Hysteria does not want to be holy.
How long she stayed there, Hysteria isn’t sure. When her mother wandered out to find her, and saw her blood-caked hands, she had looked so horrified. This, Hysteria remembers well.
“You wretched thing,” Her mother had said, voice shaking, as though she was afraid. How strange, she thought. How strange.
Hysteria had a life, once. She had a sister.
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- Part 1 of between stars and omens
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