Redsand Canyon mandrake

@Germanicus had given her words upon her arrival back. him enough sense for them to be in latin between the two of them and her enough to mind the words he spoke.

the day after, she stuck close to the heart of mereo. the furthest she had managed to go was the treeline and it was there she had found company.

a crow that seemed to have interest in the lounging form of the princess.

she had first assumed it was here for the bone of a meal she had enjoyed. yet as that was tossed aside and the bird picked it further clean, it still lingered. occasionally it squawked or hopped off to a tree limb.

it never seemed to truly leave, though.