Verdant Basin ingiullik

The heat came to the land, leaving her pawpads damp with sweat and her mucous membranes flushed with the season's blow of pollen and dust. The wind whipped warm at her face while she traveled. The heat came to the land, and the heat came to Inanna.

She burned with it, crossing mountains. Crossing territories. And when she found it, she fell gratefully into the lake and drank deeply of the ice-cold waters.