Serpent Lake one

tavina was tired. her round-the-clock care for the queen and open availability for maegi left her with little time to rest. what hours she did have were spent hunting for jawahir.

the sesh swore as the rabbit she had been tracking bounded away and disappeared into a burrow beneath the snow. she lifted her head with a snort, eyes falling on the tall obsidian figure scavenging not far away.

"are you interested in hunting with me, stranger?" tavina called. she was too focused to point out that he wandered on pharaoh's extended land. ramesses was not here to enforce it.