Heron Lake Plateau quam amoena

@Charley Pryor

though she could not fell it, eshamun nevertheless tracked an elk stag to a great plateau, if only to look at him. the woman's pregnancy made her restless; her slim frame showed more plainly the swell of her sides than it would upon a larger wolf, and she felt vulnerable because of this truth. but the melekh fashioned herself a confidence made out of the lies she told herself and molech's whispers, for the eight-armed one would let no harm befall her. she carried the seeds of the malkaria, after all.

the woman went down unto the waters and there she drank deeply, wading out into the shallows to cool herself and her great belly, which dragged at her with an uncommon weight and exhausted her more often than not.