Blackfeather Woods And I'll keep it safe

No one was coming. No one but her other two children, whom she wanted to protect, cover, shield them from the horrors of the trees and the earth and the damned daedra. She watched, still sobbing, as Sakhmet fled, and as Sobek stood stunned. Soon, words meant nothing to her.

She couldn't have called for anyone if she tried.

Instead, Maegi crumpled to the ground, giving up the digging, taking Anansi's tail between her paws. Tresy, she moaned, balling herself up like a shrimp and rocking. Like a tree with roots loosened, back and forth. . .back and forth. . .she'd killed him, she hadn't been watching close enough. . .who would be next?

One eye, the fiery orb, flickered toward Sobek and landed on him in quiet invitation; still, she said nothing but her dead son's name, a quiet, broken mantra, the pain that gripped her entire body, viselike, more than unbearable.