I had some major character development to do, but now I think I will not have so many road blocks with Zev, :D
I’ve figured out his foreign language and decided on why he’s so god and sacrifice obssesed, His religion is based loosely off Aztec and his weird language is Nahuatl
The sun sank relentlessly, slipping from the horizon, darkening the earth. It was time, the beginning of the ritual, Zev had to have his ritual complete by the rise of the sun or his God would no longer offer favour at least that is what he believed.
The dirt below the pair of wolves became red, Blood slid along the earth and pooled. The femme’s neck chest and front legs matted with the flowing blood, The brutes own blood mingled in the dirt, though no where near to the degree the little femme’s did. Her blood was not stopping, it flowed freely the wounds he created were designed to pull the flesh open without damaging the muscles
He felt her body tremble below him, not with fear but with the loss of blood came the lost of her warmth, as her life blood spilled onto the earth so did her body’s warmth and tenacity to survive. The brute gave yet another yank on her tattered neck re-opening the wounds that had already tried to clot, With the pain shooting up his leg he wanted to use every drop of blood her body could offer.
Waiting until she could no longer stand; Zev did so, despite his cracked tibia bone. He stood his paws on either side of her neck and shoved his muzzle between her ears and pushed down, pressing her chin into her own blood. He closed his eyes, willing his body away, willing the pain to be part of another plain of existence so that he might carry on in this one. This was a skill he was honing quite well, he’d pay for it later as moving about on wounded limbs only made injuries worse.
Do not move bascha her licked her ear almost affectionately.
The last ray of sun sank below the earth and Zev’s eyes snapped open, his foreign murmuring began anew. Zev stepped off the proffered femme and placed his paw in her blood then gently between her eyes marking her, sliding his paw along the top of her muzzle then to the reddened earth, he stepped back 2 paces and dug a tiny bowl in the earth then drug his claws from her to the bowl creating a stream to the shallow bowl where blood began to pool. He did this three more times each bowl and each placement was very specific to some god that he was choosing to please this night
He continued with he ceremony using all four legs as if he were not injured at all. At the very last he lifted his leg and bit his own wound allowing for his blood to flow more freely adding several drops of his own blood to each bowl.
The brute lifted his head to the moon and cried out
nexcoyomeh teochihua
Slowly his head dropped and his eyes blinked several times as if he were just waking up, He stared at the prone femme and went to step toward her, collapsing to the ground his foreleg unable to bare his weight. Zev seemed surprised, then he was hit with the pain, He gritted his teeth against it, having finished his ritual the rest of the world was rushing up to greet him.
She was still bleeding? Zev drew in a deep breath of air and held it, listening, her breath was faint. He gently stood and quickly surveyed the area, he scented something despite the bloody iron that hung in the air, hobbling on three legs he moved around until he found a bush with long red fruit hanging from it he grabbed a few cayenne peppers in his mouth and began chewing it as he made his way back to her, his mouth was hot and his throat burned, he did not have time to make a powder so this would have to do. he spit the paste on her wounds and spread it generously, being sure to staunch ever single wound. Her blood clotted almost immediately keeping what precious little she had left inside. Zev panted his tongue burned his this lifted his raised foot and stanched the flow of blood there.
The night was half over, and he’d need to move her for the morning ritual anyway So th the brute carefully hobbled behind her and took her tail into his mouth and drug her backward away from the offering he drug her limp body backwards, he no longer had the strength to carry her, so he continued to tug her tail then he’d readjust his paws and give her another tug pulling her to his chest, re adjusting his three legs he’d give her tail another haul pulling her to his chest, he repeated this action endlessly until his had her under a tree hidden below a few long hanging branches, that would keep most of the sn out in the morning, There he left her hobbling on three legs much faster without his burden He need to collect flowers for his morning ritual.
Hours slipped by and as the light crept across the sky he returned to her. Zev carried in his jaws a dead owl the very one that started this whole thing, and a strange rare vine, he had taken the seeds from his home land and planted them here upon arrival, somewhere close to the oak tree bend pack.
The Ayahuasca vine would speed healing as well as create visions, He grinned placed the vine on a rock then repeated crushed the vine with another rock until it was paste, he did not need visions at this time, he needed to be well aware, so that when she had visions he could whisper to her, help her see the greater gods, and bind her mind to him,
Carefully Zev tillted her head to the side then he transported the paste from the rock with a stick and carefully used the stick to rub the paste onto her tongue, it would taste both bitter and yet sweet, the longer it sat on her tongue the sweeter it would taste.
He lay down next to her, his side touching hers, chewing on some comfrey plant turning it into a paste and carefully applying it to his broken ankle in layers, the comfrey would reduce the swelling and encourage the bone to knit and heal, all the while he watched his nameless companion and whispered to her,
I belong to Zev, to the gods, I live to serve the gods through Zev, the gods need honouring