Lion Head Mesa I want people to be afraid of how much they love me. [WP]

She had caught the tail end of the horse ceremony. And literally the "tail end," because once she'd seen what was going on, she'd turned tail and skedaddled the fuck out of there.

What was happening?

Her days in Akashingo were filled with misery. No longer did servants at her beck and call spark joy within her. Now they were just a symptom of whatever sick, twisted hierarchy this place was. No longer did children excite her. Her own had died in her womb, perhaps before they were even born.

But she'd seen, briefly, @Teya and @Sorana, and so she'd either summoned them away or had raced to catch them up, eager to see them and to inject some sort of. . .fucking normalcy in their midst.

This was not right. She didn't belong here. She never had.

Teya, Lilitu called out, voice ringing off the canyon walls.