Lion Head Mesa I know you wanted me to stay

heat-waved moments felt like they stretched out into hours, even days. it could have been weeks. it very well could have been the whole season and she would have never known. each minute in the scorched eyes of Ra felt like eternity to one who had never seen them before.

the truth was that it was only minutes, perhaps, at most.

scents seemed to bloom stronger in the hot, dry air. exotic perfumes that felt like only a dream to her senses! her eyes opened near half-lidded. perhaps the glorious shimmer of her purple gaze would have been brighter if they were not tiredly glazed.

she had not expected to be greeted by so many. nor had she anticipated a woman who stood at the center of all of it. the glowing image of something otherworldly. wolf and yet the aura around her made it feel as if she was more than just wolf.

God?

her voice was a hushed question but she looked at that radiant newly-motherly figure with an awe to her.