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"I'm as ready as I can be," Nin says. "But I haven't seen them since Hog Throne," Nin says. "I visited Elton at his flat a few times because he wanted to make sure I had food (I do now that I can hunt again) so we talked about the Cult of Fenris. It's a danger. Elton says that the Cult is either stupid or smart depending on how inconvenient it will be for us at any time but I think he underestimates them."

"How so?" you ask.

"He thinks they're a bunch of brainless brutes and they are. But they are closer to their god than we are to our tribes' Patron Spirits. Fenris Wolf is very close to us, very close to all Garou, always right around the corner. I heard the song of Fenris Wolf once when I was young," the very young Child of Gaia says. "He whispered a conviction in my dreams where he said that once not long ago the day was all there was. He said the night is new and terrible, a sign of Gaia's death. The moon never used to be there, Fenris Wolf said. She is a deceiver, he said, she is a thief. She was once part of the true sun that's broken now and now that it's broken that's why it can't shine all the time. But Fenris will eat the false sun and the false moon and restore the sun that should be: a black sun that shines forever." Nin chews her lip. "The story did not seem probable."

"Elton talked about the Black Sun, but whatever the Cult of Fenris believes, I'm sure it's deranged and wrong."

"The Cult of Fenris has abandoned not just the Litany but the whole understanding of the universe that's sustained our Nation for ages."

"Maybe it's a metaphor. The metaphor might still be the deranged product of a damaged spirit, though."

"I've never heard of a 'black sun' in Garou except when Elton mentioned it. I'm going to look it up."

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