Two Eyes Cenote Close Eyes

For @Safiya <3
Forward dated to roughly a week after his imprisonment

Since the incident with the fly, the dog had begrudgingly taken greater care in his cleanliness. A stream with fast-flowing waters became his washroom, where he carefully disposed of old bones and food scraps, watching them swirl away into oblivion. Occasionally, if the insects grew too persistent, he would plunge himself into the freezing water, but the piebald beast remained a far cry from the man he had once been.

Dosing in the fading rays of sunlight filtering through the hole in the ceiling where interrogations were sporadically barked down at him, Machi stirred from his uneasy slumber. His ears twitched at the faint sound that pierced the droning monotony of his cell—quiet steps, unfamiliar yet creeping further into his awareness with every passing moment.

First checking above him, he then shifted his gaze towards the crack in the wall where the coyote woman occasionally appeared, wondering who would come to gaze upon the scorned fellahin today.