Deathseeker - Chapter 1: To Stain a Dove - Page 1

Girl wakes to find herself lying in a puddle of mud. She thinks it is all a dream. Then she notices her mother’s corpse. She gasps. She checks her thigh and sees the Mark. Death’s voice “Find me,” replays in her head. She sets out on foot. Her village is completely razed.

Spirit: Wake up, Dovril. Wake up. You have to leave Shalek, now! The return party will be coming back anytime now, best be going before they do.
Dovril: But where do I go?
Spirit: To the City.
Dovril: That's 5 days away from here!
Spirit: Then you better hurry.
Dovril: Wait.

(She reaches over to mom's dead body and grabs her wolf head dagger. She cuts her thumb and smears it on the blade.)

Dovril: I swear on the blood I shed that I will not rest till the wrongs here have been righted.
Spirit: Now go! Hurry!

(She grabs some supplies from her tepee, including her shaman staff, and dashes for the trees in the distance.)

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