Lion Head Mesa seventeenth

she tucked herself against him. realized it might be the only way she slept tonight. forced her eyes closed as she listened to him. thinking that, just maybe, if she pretended she was asleep she eventually would slumber.

only it was dreams of familiar faces that awaited her on the other side.

she dreamed of @Khaba by her side. and then she dreamed of her father. the sting of his lapis gaze upon her and her court. haunting! horrifying! but senmut was there too and the once jodai. watchful over her in a guarding way. no room for a spirit in her heart.

eventually she was lost to the waking world at last. even if only until the early hours of dawn.