Morningside Cuesta deuteronomy

The girl was sweet. A little touched, Djinn thought — eager to please and very clingy for her age — but that served the elder well. How long they traveled alone! And now to have a guardian on one side, and an eager youth on the other. It was heaven.

Alright, alright... Djinn laughed softly beneath their breath as they tried to calm the fire in the girl, but not too much. Then they rose to their feet (with the girl's help) and they got on with it again.

Distantly, the dark shape of their guardian loomed, lurching on.