The Champion of Aspects - a heroine of Nature
Xafile kneels over the dead cheetah and carefully makes a clean cut in its flesh. She catches the dripping blood in a wooden bowl, closes the wound again and puts a leaf of the evergreen fenasia on it. She then walks around the cheetah four times with the bowl, pouring a small amount of the blood onto the ground after each round. While doing so, she speaks the words:
"Essence of Nature, versatile Essence of Nature, strength is your power, yet let the bear within me rest."
"Essence of Nature, versatile Essence of Nature, wisdom is your power, yet let the raven within me rest."
"Essence of Nature, versatile Essence of Nature, cunning is your power, yet let the serpent within me rest."
"Essence of Nature, versatile Essence of Nature, agility is your power, awaken the cheetah in me."
In the end she drinks the rest of the blood and lies down next to the cheetah and falls asleep.
After a minute she wakes up, freshly recovered. Her muscular arms are gone, but her movements are now elegant and light-footed. A short call into the forest and a multitude of warriors gather around her. Most of them are dressed in skins of various predatory cats or deer. Xafile speaks: "Our Evergreen Forest needs our help again. Once again, troops from the Valley of Light are trying to invade our lands through the mountains, and you know how they treat our nature. Let's leave quickly and stop them. On the dangerous and slippery passes of the mountains we are superior to them and can push them back even before they have torn the first leaf of our forest. The Evergreen Forest must not perish, the Essence of Nature must not dry up." With these words, the warriors set off, barely more than a faint rustling can be heard.