[Ragnar knew better than to overdo it on the mushrooms. He'd learned that lesson the hard way in his youth.
Tonight, he'd only popped two or three into his mouth, swallowing them down right before the sacrifice. He found it made the whole affair that much more intense. A vision of a dark, cloaked figure stood behind the goat and the sounds of ravens echoed in his ears despite there not being any at the party.
By the time he reached for the blood in the bowl, his eyes looked uncharacteristically dark with just a bright icy blue halo around the black of his dilated pupils. He dipped two fingers into the blood and drew two lines from his forehead to his chin and down his neck, the blood trickling down past the neck of his tunic.]
Sif. [He tilted his head, peering at her face a moment and then dipped both hands into the blood before reaching out to drawn fierce lines running from the corners of her eyes down the outside contour of her face like wings made of blood. He drew along her cheekbones and then down the sides of her jaw and neck, looking memorized by the contrast of her skin and dark blood.]
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Tonight, he'd only popped two or three into his mouth, swallowing them down right before the sacrifice. He found it made the whole affair that much more intense. A vision of a dark, cloaked figure stood behind the goat and the sounds of ravens echoed in his ears despite there not being any at the party.
By the time he reached for the blood in the bowl, his eyes looked uncharacteristically dark with just a bright icy blue halo around the black of his dilated pupils. He dipped two fingers into the blood and drew two lines from his forehead to his chin and down his neck, the blood trickling down past the neck of his tunic.]
Sif. [He tilted his head, peering at her face a moment and then dipped both hands into the blood before reaching out to drawn fierce lines running from the corners of her eyes down the outside contour of her face like wings made of blood. He drew along her cheekbones and then down the sides of her jaw and neck, looking memorized by the contrast of her skin and dark blood.]