She knocked the drink back, which soon had her coughing over the taste.
"This tastes like piss!"
He mother smiled and sneered, "good, its supposed to!" yanking the glass from her hand, she gestured. "Now get ready for bed. You reek of the swamp."
Sah-lora cast her mother a glare before preparing a shallow bath and undressing in the back room, and as she began to clean herself with the lard and oils, her mother appeared and studied her daughters body.
"Sahlora.... You are old enough to know you must be careful."
"Yes, I know... Both man and gods and their treachery," she went on, dipping her long red braid of hair into the water before beginning to scrub.
"I dont think you know... You were fooled this once. What if another appeared?"
Sighing impatiently, she turned to her mother with a look.
"Then I shall have to drink more piss water, won't I?"
Her mother's glare deepened.
"This is no joke, Sahlora... If the Gods try something...."
She had enough of this and stood up in her bath
"If the Gods come, let them! I shall cut myself and slay them with my blood."
Rhizhra eyed her daughter.
"Do not be so brash, foolish child Finish your bath and get to bed. You'll have a lot of spiders to eat come morning."