"Blood Tells"

Jormungander, the Midgard Serpent, has gone native on Turtle Island. Yet, he still has much to learn about his new clan. He is the offspring of the attractive and notorious traitor, Loki the Trickster. This makes it hard to accept his new clan’s policy to crush the gold and silver eggs the Pretty White Snake’s mates lay. Onyare, the Pretty White Snake, is the most beautiful but dangerous of serpents.. His gold and silver scales are so dazzling they affect humans. Yet, he always turns on the one who feeds him, and his offspring are said to take after him. As the new War Chief of the Snakes, it’s Jormangander’s duty to follow the clanmother’s edict to crush the eggs. Will he follow the edict? Or will he find out for himself why the edict is in place in this illustrated short story?