Lion Head Mesa As promised

Toula felt relief, and happiness too, to know that ash paw was willing to come!
she had built a place for visiting mothers, all in the womans name. a place where Tawaret looked over, for she had seen to it that each corner was blessed. it was unassuming, but warm and comfortable and welcoming; also in its corners were bundled gifts for ash paw to take, if she wished—some perhaps the same as what had been brought, but also offering the great variety of Akashingo thanks to its traders.
ash paw brought with her, though, plants not yet here! once they arrived to the warm and comfortable space, as spacious as the place ash paw had shown to her, Toula settled inside and gestured to the furs there for her to lay upon, and bid a fellahin come to them with an assortment of meats for her friend! and it would be with her teacher that Toula brought comfort and coziness here; she hoped ash paw would love it well.
and only once she was settled did she open her gift to ash paw, and nosed it gently toward her tutor. this is our Tawaret, an amulet to be placed within the homee... a stone found, and further shaped, in her likeness. She and This brings protection, during a time of child bearing and rearing. it has been blessed by our priests and myself, all toula wanted was for ash paw to be protected, to be safe!
she drew in a breath. she could not think of losing another, and worked hard to not burden ash paw with the wounds of her own loss in a time meant for them, and for joy.
oh! a delightful thought warmed her, to think that Pharaoh might be born again... perhaps even by her tutor!
hope lit her from within. whether or not it might be true, Toula felt a strange sort of peace in the maternal presence of ash paw. as though Tawaret looked through her—or was with them—
and remembered only then that she herself was a girl, still. protected still by Her. was your journey difficult? she wondered, aware of her current state! the fellahin returned to place dried game alongside them.