The silence in her mind was…ashamed? ~I’m sorry, child. I had forgotten how very many years had passed since I was last incarnated within a body. It is possible your forebears were…fiercer than you are. They would not have seen a problem with garbing themselves so. As your body is an invitation, the belt is a warning. Those who displease me will have to deal with the consequences.~
“Like Scoggins.” She shuddered as she remembered his lightless eyes, the stench as his bowels voided themselves in death. Someone was going to have to deal with his body soon. Otherwise his corpse would become a dangerous breeding ground for bacteria and disease, even if scavengers weren’t drawn to the dead body.
~Like Scoggins,~ the goddess agreed. ~But we have better things to think about now. If there is no
