Barrier Gulch [m] Asp

don't mind me just making this worse

zaahira, too, wandered.
a solo march, past the luneshale, past muat-riya, mind ablaze with thoughts; senmut became father, pharaoh became mother. zaahira was not worthy of either title, and never would be.
perhaps that was why she held a fondness for eset that refused to die — two vastly different hearts, yet they both thrummed with blood that was equally worthless to the dynasty.
perhaps that was what drew her out here. perhaps that was why the spatters of scarlet frightened her enough to scream, to lunge for the foreign bodies which began to crowd eset like vultures.
for in that moment, she was not jodai, but a wild-hearted beast. the very same girl who had crawled to the doorstep of akashingo.