Lion Head Mesa seventy-eighth

the travellers had a surprise awaiting them.
zaahira came to greet senmut first with a hardlined bow. at the first moment she is able, he is pulled aside. she tells him of the coyote girl who had been caught trespassing, of mesen-ka's hand in her apprehension with a note of satisfaction in her voice. justice for the priestess will be found.
as she parts from him, she peruses the crowd and observes the trinkets brought from the sea. fine things, pretty things; perhaps she will have to barter for something or other.
she makes her way back to her chambers with a lighter heart.