Two Eyes Cenote [ap] Honey, we should run away, someday.

he stayed.

"you are not keeping me."

he stayed beyond the settling of her body, beyond the evening of her breath; the guard did not watch her sleep, only gazed ahead with the focus of his post.

but when the crocodile felt that the lilac slept, his face fell into a mask of fury and shock as he stepped outside her door and sought his next assignment, shouldering through the halls until the cool air of the desert struck his cheekbones and he was able to breathe out in rage.