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Chapter 58: Embrace of the Goddess
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Eulogy for the Lost Warriors of Grey Peak
The Goddess walks through the blackness surrounded by her children but always fixed at a distance. She can touch them only with her light and her grace as she gazes upon them and guides their lives. Her guidance and gifts have blessed our people from the moment she created us and bound us to her offspring.
She gifts us with abilities, wolves, packs, and mates and, in remembrance of all she has done for us, we keep her legacy strong. We use our gifts to protect our packs and our mates. So that one day we each may have young that she will then gift with blessings of their own. Ready to continue the next generation to worship her and bask in her soft glow.
Throughout our history we have faced strife and warfare. Many have been forced to flee their packs and territories
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