Two Eyes Cenote sand & arrow

"little ones. today i march. but another day you will come with me."

he regarded @Safiya with thoughtfulness, then smiled at fanciful little @Tiye, wrestled @Kheti a little, and reached to riffle @Kiyya's ears. "have you given any thought to becoming mazoi, my lotus pillars?"

Safiya's ears immediately perked up and she looked at her father so fast she almost toppled.

I have. I would like too, i mean. She nodded a determined glint in her eye. If she must serve let it be with deadly paws and claws and not her body and soul.

she huffs.
baba you don't have to march.. she pouts, plopping herself atop one of his paws to keep him from moving.
in a perfect world, the mazoi should be useless. but the world is perfect. why should any of them be mazoi?