Once upon a time, there was a True Fae who loved a Fianna werewolf named Glory-In-Moonlight. His relatives, however, did not consider her worthy of mingling her blood with their warrior kind, so she challenged their oldest most experienced warrior to a trial by combat. When she laid her flaming blade Camhanach against his throat, he acceded her worthiness to be mate to one of the tribe, which had watched them duel. (And before anyone picks on her for using a magic sword against a creature taller than she is and at least two and a half times as massive, armed with sharp claws, fangs, and supernatural strength and speed, she didn't start with it. She summoned it about half a minute into the fight.) This is Fionn's ('The Last Laugh') first life, before she was quite a Pooka; a falcon-born shapechanging faerie known as Icewhisper, or Dame Whisper of the Ice Heart ap Eiluned.

Artist's note.... I wouldn't say anyone was meander than Whisper. Though she wasn't mean. She was amoral, calculating, and occasionally vicious, but she never killed needlessly....

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