Qeya River and there is much to say

Have you such fear of Natigvik now?

Her voice was soft. It was not what she had come here to say, but it was what left her now, as she gazed upon Amalia.

Wary and submissive.

This was not the woman she had grown to love. Somehow it was like a stranger now — and Sakhmet wondered if Amalia thought her one too.