Sometimes the omens appear in clusters. Today a coyote ran across the road in front of me and (oddly) didn’t look back. This week I found three snakeskins, all inaccessible in some way: One hidden under stones (revealed when I was planting agaves), one entwined deep among the daggerlike leaves of a yucca in my yard, and one old and worn but not yet shed, on a big rattlesnake that I met in a sandy wash yesterday. Clearly, it’s time for me to leave some things behind. Here are some iron items that might help:
The Vulture Dancer earrings have double curly cone bells and vulture leg bones. Two high-carbon steel threaductter knives rest on a piece of snakeskin. The left one is a bird claw, and has a blade and a seamripper. The right one (quite a bit thicker and heavier) is a cat claw, 2.5″ long. Since they are forged, ground, drilled, and polished, they are a lot more work than they look – and perhaps more than they’re worth, considering their rough appearance. Perhaps Atropos wears one of these as an amulet, or keeps it hidden in her workbasket.
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