Redsand Canyon I will love you until the last breath leaves my body

wasnt sure what the posting order was but throwing this in!

everything shifted very quickly.

aquene spoke and germanicus registered unknowingly. his eyes remained upon his wife, who had gone wan and weak. 

and then the blood. and then a fourth child, a second daughter stained with it.

the eagle might never forget the sight of it all. he stepped where he was directed, did as the healer commanded, gathered their children closer to him and from the scene.

and in his heart he raced with fear, a glassy slanted edge of it. there were many things unsaid and yet he could muster none of them. the imperator was stiff-legged and grim, mechanic, voiceless save for a muttering here and there.

germanicus refused to panic. the hours passed and he did not rest in his tireless assistance of their physician. ruenna would not die. she must not die.