Barrier Gulch [m] Asp

the intention is for khu to follow qiao/akavir/eset later when jasper is handled, but for rn im assuming the group is splitting up?

this was wrong.

this was not the moment. 

zaahira's words seethed toward the bleeding woman and khusobek bent more fiercely over his own task, his face grim as his own teeth flashed to beat down the poisoner once more. his renewed attack upon eset only suggested he had been responsible in some way for this, and the crocodile found a dark pleasure in striking the man harder and harder. 

teeth gashed his other wrist, his own finding purchase in struggling skin. a scapegoat.

as the dark stranger pulled eset to him, khusobek tried to muscle down the poisoner with a hard shoulder. "jodai. zaahira. enough. let them go or eset will die. help me." his voice was a hard rumble of defiance for what had gone on, but his eyes tried to find her own. 

senmut was there at the palace, and zaahira was too wild with her own selfish anger to attend muat-riya now. let her vent this rage onto the beast he held in his teeth. he would insist she take their prisoner to akashingo.

rashepses would be grateful for such torments as khusobek had once devised.