Sky Mesa muscle & water

kadesh! oh, had she hands she would have slapped him!
why return to kadesh if it will only make you both miserable? why do any of these things if it will leave one or both of you hurting? rhetorical, heated; her gaze broke away from the set of his jaw to find a straggler among the pronghorn. from what you have told me of your life with pharaoh hatshepsuun, you were in agony. you are under toula's oversight now. hatshepsuun does not own you here.
the jodai softens, the bristle of her nape coming to a calm as she searches his face once more. i know that she haunts you. that you feel as though you do not have freedom. but khusobek, her knuckles flex as her grip on the gravel shifts.

let go.

there is a chance — a young doe, no more than a year old, with a stagger to her gait. she cannot keep up with the rest of the herd. zaahira springs to her feet and launches the chase into action.