Two Eyes Cenote Shm'Usert

Their travel is laborious for @Khusobek for how slow it is, and Nazli finds herself worrying that the man might grow frustrated by the work. She cannot walk far without aid. He has brought along an animal skin to help transport her, which staggers their progress even further. From time to time the medicine that Gil left them with makes Nazli too drowsy, or sickens her belly so that she cannot eat the rations that they gathered from Akashingo; but eventually they make it to a place Nazli has never seen before.
The grit of the earth becomes something green, and from the shelter of some foreign trees Nazli thinks she can spy the mesa! Except it is in the wrong direction—they are headed towards it, not away—and the silhouette is wrong. The light has already begun to fade and it is only the late afternoon, and at this distance Nazli could not hope to make sense of what she sees.
It is a mesa, but it is not Akashingo; this place that vanishes in to the gray murk of the November sky is their destination.
Nazli looks to Khusobek as he allocates the remaining rations for their sparse dinner, but says nothing.