Lion Head Mesa Take your time, and consume all of it

There were two. The first was recognizable, the second quiet, though they didn’t sound as if they were hiding. She thought perhaps Makono had brought a guard. Not the same one she had usually been tailed by in Mereo. Had something happened to him?

I came to see how you, and your pack were. She answered, unsmiling but not unfriendly. And to give you news. Mereo is gone; the Imperator has left the canyon to travel.

She’d confirmed it to be empty when she left Epoch. The marks had already been fading. It was brief and vague, but saying anything more here would be petty. Despite the impulse, Fennec didn’t want to ruin his name here. The respect of this woman had meant something to him.