Two Eyes Cenote calling the scarlet sands

she had been here before, and she was tired.

a dozen celebrations. a horse slaughtered. a godhead ascended.

tavina kept herself to the background, and this time she did drink, and a good deal as well. 



she did not like rashepses because she did not know rashepses. she thought toula entirely too young to marry, not even to her first season —! she felt the priests were too eager for it. she hated the touch of fur against her own. she had come to despise the desert and knew she would return in the next day to the palace indeed, and grew eager to return to her rooms and pack her things.

despite all this, despite it all, a smile did spark upon her face to see toula so very, very happy, to see her fulfilled and radiant as makono had not been.