Lion Head Mesa Ouroboros

yes, and four days -- if pharaoh was feeling lenient, which nazli could not fathom, she had four days of girlhood remaining.
how could this be? it felt like punishment. an inevitable one, yet a punishment all the same.
she could run; she knew the way to mereo and had grown in to herself there, had proven her use to them, they would ---
no, they couldn't help her. it would jeopardize their alliance.
nazli didn't know what to say to tavina.
she had paled. her thoughts were circular; but the woman pulled the girl out of them with her comment.
I... no, but... not now.