It is a time for life, for emergence from the caves they have hidden inside like vagrants, scared of the horror-sounds echoing from without. The sun has emerged, spilling his light like a ray of tangible hope across the horizon. With it, a shadow rises to meet him, a consistent oxymoron to his brilliance as she turns a dark face with an inverted ink splatter across one mulberry gazer into his warm embrace. Tonight is the first where she has slept knowing it would rise again when she awoke. Tonight is also the first where she had fallen asleep knowing her dark Chieftess was far from the safety of her borders. She uncurls like a feline, long legs unfolding and stretching languidly in the dry, warm patch of grass she is nested in. Clambering to her hooves feels like a sin, wanting to return to the flattened soil and greenery she'd warmed through her own body heat. Comfort like that was something she did not deserve and would not be tempted by. This morn, she had an objective. A task.

Today she would educate her fellow kin in the ways of healing and in poisoning. She would tell them how to stitch up the worst of fissures in skin and tissue, clot the rain of crimson that could just as easily be the downfall to a warrior as a stake to the heart. And in turn she would whisper velvet words into their aurals, teaching them how to bring an unwitting opponent writhing and screaming to their knees, how to incapacitate and drug their targets. The demoness was a manipulator of knowledge, a store of hidden secrets, and her pupils would get a taste of those divine crafts should they answer her call.

Crown tilted to the sky and she rang out for them, a promise kept from a meeting they'd all attended. It beckoned them, ordering them to come to her bosom should they have any interest in what she intended to impart them with. Aodaun and Lakota caught eyes, and Lakota smiled.

Let's show them just what we can do, little prince.

All she got was an excited bark in response.

So few come, but it is to be expected, as life is still slow and tentative in their emerald homeland. The first to arrive is a graceful pale lady with tears of crimson stained into her flesh, beautiful and strong of form. Lakota nods to her in greeting, expression calm and welcoming despite the lack of a smile that so many others would have worn at a time such as this. Artemis, as she recalls somewhat fondly. Her memory is as good as ever, and she remembers how the lass had battled bravely and loyally despite her status as a newer member of the Foothills. How she had stepped up so bravely to continue to contribute, and clearly was respectful and interested enough to have responded to Lakota's summons. "Greetings Artemis," rolls off her tongue easily, elegantly, and Aodaun moves to circle her in interest, keeping his distance at Lakota's urging. Best not to scare her, though Artemis did not seem the type to be easily intimidated, especially by a lovable little polar bear sniffing her out. "Indeed I'm Lakota. Today is a day for learning, and in my case, for teaching."

She is interrupted by the delightful- to her at least- arrival of another. He is newer, and she only remembers catching him towards the close of the herd meeting. His name escapes her, but he is kind enough to remind them all as Artemis had done, though Lakota had actually remembered the General's title. They are both pale, the antithesis to her own midnight and sapphire gown. "My name is Lakota, I am the double-titled Poisoner and Earth Medic of the Foothills, and one of the oldest members left of the Grey to remain here. This is a...small, apparently, teaching session on those two topics," she states, giving a small roll of her lithe shoulders to loosen herself up with a soft sigh.

Turning, she beckoned Aodaun with a silent call, and he ran to her side without hesitation to stride at her shoulder pleasantly. "To start off with, and do please walk with me, what do you two know about either subject?" Lakota calls this over one dark shoulder, white-patterned eye peering at them curiously as she begins to walk, flicking her tail amiably to urge them along.

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Waited enough, if you still want to join feel free everyone!
@[Artemis] and @[Arrane]