Noctisardor Bypass stergeda

the pair stood in reverence of the fallen. ava’s skin crawled as she stared at the skull — feeling the skull was staring back. 

she looked to her mother and wondered did other creatures have their own gods?  and what shape did these gods take, modeled in the eye of their worshippers?

probing questions once more made their home in ava’s mind. she looked to her mama once more, studying the beleaguered lines of heda’s expression. 

though ava could not articulate why, she noticed age had begun to sink its talons in the pleasing architecture of heda’s face.