Blacktail Deer Plateau i would beg to disagree, but begging disagrees with me

hoping to get @Sakhmet alone but AW!

@Mou had been so good with the children that Maegi ought to have taken them off his paws for a little while—but she didn't. She knew it was selfish, but she needed some time to herself. Time with her eldest daughter. 

It was strange, she thought, with Sakhmet. She walked along the border, gazing down the river that separated the plateau from all else. The ruddy woman at once erased the horrific past and yet brought it tumbling back to life. A reminder of good things gone by—but alone. And with Sobek and Anansi absent forever from her side, Maegi could never forget what had come of them.

She had called for Sakhmet, hoping to speak with her about Niamh's trio before it became an issue. Things would come to a head soon enough, and they might well find themselves in a position to be vilified. All of them, by association with Mou and Maegi.

She couldn't spring that on her daughter by surprise. Not if she could help it.

It was nice here, and she rued having to shatter the peace of yet another idyllic place. For a few moments, she enjoyed the quiet, the murmur of wind on the long grasses, the gentle songs of birds. The sun on her back. The feeling of a new home.