Ashes to Ashes
Dusk had settled on the island. The ritual had commenced and Taz glanced at his hand scrawled with blood. Fon’Watha was the only place he found peace, outside of that incessant Luna’lai that was ever present. Still...he enjoyed the lost woods of their island. The Island of the Great Apocalypse. A name that was wrought with disaster but currently teeming with life. He didn’t trust it.
The Darkspear was settled into the large open hut enjoying the crisp breeze from the ocean as the sun began it’s descent on the horizon. He twirled the vial of ash from the ceremony in his right hand as he thought then his glance returned to the dried blood on his hand. “Power.” He recognized it the sigil. Surely Zin’Vik knew he would recognize it. Perhaps that was his reasoning. The snake priest wanted the death shaman to think on it. What was written on his forehead? He had no idea and he didn’t care to look at the sigil. But the idea of “power” being one of the main things Zin’Vik attributed to him was curious.
An exhale breathed from within his mask as he stood up, still grasping the ashes. Now he thought of the question the Antu’jin posed the Dominion. “Where would you place this? Place it somewhere with meaning, somewhere you believe is important.” As he thought on this Taz uncorked the vial and poured the ashes into the hand with the blood sigil. Taz squeezed his hand into a fist and spoke a quiet voodoo chant, “Jang siame mojo. Loa atuad ju.” A bright purple flame erupted within his palm as his armor rattled. As often when he spoke his voodoo, the feathers and bones shook in response. They were soaked in mojo so that Taz could more accurately speak his voodoo without needing to dance as others may need to.
The purple flames ignited within his clenched fist as it singed the blood sigil into his palm. After a few moments, the flames had died and the Darkspear opened his fist to look at his hand. Now, the sigil was burned into his palm. A temporary reminder, better than blood and more powerful with the voodoo he had imbued within the blood. The snake priest’s blood was now bound to his palm. Not for any sinister purposes, but for protection. He had bound himself to Zin’Vik’s life.
Trust given and trust taken.

















