Two Eyes Cenote Does he speak to you now?

i play the part of a subordinate, he answers her first question with a simplicity that translates before the soft shrug of his shoulders. i read my threadbones and patrol borders, mostly. this was not his normal, neither, since the fall of basilica, was leading a pack. those were extraordinary circumstances that were not usually deigned to last.

not usually. Ma'at is the first to contact me in a long while. mostly it is the spirits of the past commanders — my ancestors on my mother's side — that speak to me. and only through the threadbones.

she teases the idea of being promised a bride by reading fortunes but he offers a soft shake of his head. after two failed marriages he has come to the conclusion that he is a creature not met for being settled in that way. i have tried twice to be husband and father. i am not good at either. a fact that he, simply, accepts.