Ocean's Breath Plateau [m] seventy-fifth

as fluid as her movements were
(unhindered despite the sand; and why would the earth god Geb impede a priestess? nazli, the bridge between earth and air and sky!)
there was a touch of chaos, too.

moving with the most subtle of inferences and then quickly, deliberately; bowing low as the tide swept out, reaching up like the rising of Ra, and then laughter, as she carelessly caught her steps in the breaking foam.

nazli came to senmut's side while the laughter rolled from her throat, all smiles and sunlight, and for once the black of her eyes looked filigree'd with goldensun.