At every turn, Tavina was a woman who clinched quiet strength. But the fellahin perceived, maybe because she knew what to look for, or because gradually so great a loss seeps into corners of life it might have never before touched until grief became a philosophy.
“She does,” another agreement, looking with admiration into the amethyst eyes that had guided her, and so often. Seeing the loneliness there.
“Now that our second palace is nearly furnished, it would please me to assist you again,” The doctor was busy. The paws of Sesh had dwindled to one. Nazli was in the North. Legend lay ailing.
Her eyes are drawn to a flickering of sage and the silver silhouette cresting the bluff.
“Are you having any luck on your end, Inji?” She greets with an inviting sweep of tail.
Her previous frustrations are comparatively small. She gives a second glance to the odd patchy plant. Maybe there was potential.
sorry to hold this up! <3
"rashepses," tavina said with a swift dryness, arching a brow at the two women who appeared to have become her allies in this.
her eyes returned to eset; between them both, she felt the tripping of her pulse and her body reminded her it had been seven months since —
almost eight.
her wry look had not abated, a dashing expression beneath which a volcanic sorrow roiled. "i'll take the help, gladly. with all the new plants, i've had to do a lot of identification. i expect," tavina went on, scrutinizing the odd little shrubbery once more, "we should all be prepared for the chance our queen may decide to break with tradition and have her children elsewhere. if there are to be newborns here, i'll need to make sure a pharmacy is stocked with both sorts of herbs, from upland and the desert."
she had been musing really, voice dipping from conversational to introspective; a doctor in her element. "i wonder if some of these bloom at night. they might be more appealing. dry flowers, perhaps."
A breath stops in her chest where a worry grows for Inji, trickling into a well of things unspoken.
Her lips hike into a smirk at Tavina’s suggestion. And not a bad one. She had it on good authority that some cacti were poisonous.
The ugly plant is set aside with her paw. “I’m going to return after sundown to see what blooms under moonlight.”