Lion Head Mesa ascendant

there was not a need for her voice.

pharaoh said everything. all of it had been laid clear. some part of her worried for the we'eb, but that felt so far out of her reach in this room! and, oh, her heart reached for her brother.

to make him see whatever everyone else seemed to.

to understand she did not move with malice. to know there was still room for him here, with her. that it did not need to end much like the sacrifice had.

for him to understand that she still loved him.

there were far uglier ways for these things to rise between them.

but for now she could only stand. blinked, far away through eyes once more not her own. she wondered if her brother would break her heart, and had she broken his? how badly?

the hem would speak.

she would listen.