Patreon: Aloy by Satanya

Three Drinks Deep by NidoranDuran Aloy's first drink burned at her throat, made her choke and sputter as the men around her all laughed, not with the mockery or cruelty of seeing her fail, but in watching someone go through a rite of passage. That was how it had been pitched to her by Erend when he suggested she come back to his home to drink with him and his friends after he'd given her the tour of Meridian. And she had agreed, perhaps because everything about rites and feeling normal in this world that was anything but to her…