Two Eyes Cenote Eiderdown

sorry to hold this up! <3

"rashepses," tavina said with a swift dryness, arching a brow at the two women who appeared to have become her allies in this. 

her eyes returned to eset; between them both, she felt the tripping of her pulse and her body reminded her it had been seven months since —

almost eight.

her wry look had not abated, a dashing expression beneath which a volcanic sorrow roiled. "i'll take the help, gladly. with all the new plants, i've had to do a lot of identification. i expect," tavina went on, scrutinizing the odd little shrubbery once more, "we should all be prepared for the chance our queen may decide to break with tradition and have her children elsewhere. if there are to be newborns here, i'll need to make sure a pharmacy is stocked with both sorts of herbs, from upland and the desert."

she had been musing really, voice dipping from conversational to introspective; a doctor in her element. "i wonder if some of these bloom at night. they might be more appealing. dry flowers, perhaps."