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@Zaahira MY HEART. I’m sry it’s been too long I tried to stop myself
Toula had heard that there were no failures made by her
Jodai. of course there were not—it was why Toula had named her as such! but the absence of her sister, the timing of her return…
she confided in her
Jodai as they made way toward the prisoner.
if you think them guilty of the death of our Hemet, I am inclined to believe you,
for she trusted her
Jodai perhaps more than any.
but… my sister… I think she perhaps may have left, of her own accord.
once she saw she could not be Pharaoh here, Toula imagined she might have sought her fortune elsewhere. why should her wayward sister trust who now stood as Pharaoh?
but her heart ached for the thought that Ashikaga might not have trusted her. for a brief moment, Ashikaga had been the last thing she knew that breathed that had shared with her one of her first loves—their father. and now she was gone, and with her, Toula’s faith in her.
ME TOO!!!! I love them so much, I couldn't resist anymore!
if she did not think so, Toula took her word for it. what reason did her
Jodai have to lie? it was a comfort, regardless, to have anything. perhaps the captive would be able to inform them of something of use. she was no master interrogator, though. it was a matter in which she would need to trust her heart, and perhaps her instinct as well. her heart had yet to lead her astray, and if the Gods trusted the weight of it to determine where one would spend the afterlife, so too would she with the living.
the words Zaahira spoke on her sister inspired a long line of thinking, and for a time, they traveled in silence. at last, Toula said,
the attack might have been meant for Ashikaga. perhaps the command for it may have come from within. someone detested her mother enough to kill her,
she remembered. who had been around for both? she must confer with
@Senmut on this! she had been so young, then. it all felt like some old story one was told—and it had been why, to this day, her food was always tested! an order of Ramesses that outlived even him.
as for the last part, Toula sighed.
I do not know if that is true anymore—she had been gone for so long, to a place that I have neither seen nor heard of. we were just girls when we saw one another last. but I loved her. I... want to trust her,
she breathed.
and it may be wrong, but I still do. no fang turned toward me, no meal left myself or my fellahin ill. many would wish for sister to turn against sister,
she acknowledged,
but we are most powerful united, I think,
an unknown, now—Ashikaga was gone.