1
the goat is agata. goats are associated the devil and the occult- in c!mim’s eyes, agata is responsible for the suffering of the village. she was intelligent, yes, but she was violent. if you looked into her eyes, really looked, you would see no light, no glimmer. they were dark and flat like ink on a page. as the head of the council, she rejected c!mim’s studies for years, always with snideness and a laugh. she revelled in the cruelty of it. towards the end, when everything began to truly unravel, she disappeared. the day before it all ended, she was found, cowering in a dark room and unrecognisable. she had contracted the plague and it was destroying her alive.
2
the boar is cassie. boars represent ferocity. they are opportunistic feeders and take what they can. a hunter and a friend to c!mim, he was bold and dangerous with the crossbow, but her smile was contagious and her personality inescapably friendly. He and c!mim were friends, but not close enough for him to fully understand what c!mim was attempting. In the end, when the fire raged through the village and a corpse burned in the lab, she was filled with spite she had never felt. chasing c!mim to the edges of the village where the treeline started, he raised his crossbow and aimed. the flames in his eyes- was that a reflection? or was it hate? she made a decision there, and spun around to run back into the blaze. if he could save anybody, that would be worth more than revenge. either way, the injuries on mim’s body would probably kill them regardless. he hoped they would.
3
the deer is emyr.
