Blackfeather Woods And I'll keep it safe

Every instinct screamed at her to draw Sobek close when he fell beside her, but her paws would not move from Anansi's tail. Clutching it, like a talisman. Like frozen in mid-pounce. She could not let him go, lest the tree and the earth swallow him up entirely.

Like Nirgali, Ninazu. . .

Maegi blubbered nonsensically, at least shifting her frame to press against Sobek's smaller form. How long she stayed within this catatonic state, she wasn't sure. Hours? Days? It was the tunnels all over again, but a thousand times worse.

Another child gone. Another soul she held dear, gone.

By Jaes, when would it end?!