Crazy

BFTA 28

Crazy was an understatement. He wasn’t in the right frame of mind. They sat around the bonfire, chanting prayers for the dead. Lino had freed Jessica’s mate for long enough to attend and collect her ashes.

It was the rules. His father had ruled this way, and his grandfather before him. He would not break tradition because of a scowling woman. Jessica had touched the wolfsbane and fed it to Cassy. As such, she was a traitor. In his grandfather’s days, the priestess would be called upon to bestow a Small Death upon the traitor before an actual execution.

The Small Death referred to the process of being stripped bare. The wolf would be taken apart from the body, and the two would live as separate entities. No one had ever survived it. They would either go insane, or they would kill themselves.

It was a brutal punishment, admittedly, but his grandfather had seen it fitting for whoever dared to dabble with the sorcerers. It was believed that one could only obtain