A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE m******e AT THE SHADOW VILLAGE
A cold breeze blew gently into the trunk house and Merius felt the skin on her left arm twitch uncomfortably from the chilling freeze. She sat on the raised platform inside their trunk house that was her bed. On it, she slept upon a white cotton sheet and covered her legs with a green one.
Inside this carved out space in a tree that she lived with her mother, there were spiral carvings all over the surfaces just as there were in every other house at their village. The spiral on their foreheads and inscribed everywhere else around The Shadow Village was the Mark of The Shadow and to them it meant protection and peace and so they carved it onto every surface they could find.
Marius - Merius' mo
