The Ripple effect

[River Illia]

Nighttime.

Its been a couple of weeks new book since I got dragged into another rabbit hole. This one however doesn't have a snake waiting to devour me alive..well other then the society types. Its a brand new world river girl, gotta adjust.

I was quiet for a while, sniffing for danger every second, afraid to say too much. Then I realized one night in a dream with pappy screaming at me that I was acting like one of those pansy rabbits. Not the coyote rabbit I like to be. Took me a bit to figure out the games playing out and figured out its one big shell game. Yanno when the bean underneath the cup turns out to be a blood sucking vampire instead of the ox you thought it was.

So catch up book: This lady named habren saved me when the ox was about to tumble over me. Turns out shes pretty nice for being dead and all. Don't quite remember the next part too well, but I guess dyin will do that to a body.

So this place. Its..got a kind of charm. My pappy would have hated it. He would have called the politicians "scummers" and made out for his own place in the wild. Me, well Im experimenting. Don't know if Im gonna stay forever but its nice to not be reviled as a freak who needs to be cut open. Seems like since I died my curse has settled down. I only see numbers when I want to and even then they don't make me pass out anymore.

Want to hear something cool book? Somehow I got this cool shadow power thing going on. Figure my curse and life translated into this new path Im stuck on. Though I don't mind cause it lets me fade into the shadows easier.

Most the people Ive met are interesting. Phoe (thats the sibling thing I guess?) is funny as hell. I just like to sit back and watch her get dozens of people pissed at her. We get along pretty well, though I figure its cause she reminds me of pappy so much. All she needs is britches and a shotgun.

Lets see..I met some other people..like Mircea. Hes this big guy of the family. Got a wicked tongue and scares the beejesus out of me. But not like scared scared..but I remember what the witchy woman taught me..its the quiet nice ones who can kill you quicker then a rattlesnake. So I give him a wide berth mostly. Though hes good about listening, figure its cause we both agree about this council stuff.

Oh yeah sorry book, the council is this big body of dead people looking over the rest. They've got this masquerade and everything. I don't mind em, but its funny to point out the flaws in the rules they got. Normally I wouldn't say ****. But I feel like I owe habren for saving my life and I know the council has got her stressed with those silly rules. So I give em a bit of heck to pay them back for her.

**** gotta feed. Yeah..Im dead now to book, so I gotta drink blood. But hey thats better then drinking other stuff.

R.