Two Eyes Cenote we can't fall any further if we can't feel ordinairy love

@Khusobek @Qiao (I think) @Eset and anyone else who would be here, I imagine.

She was as light as feather—maybe he shouldn’t worry about that, and yet he did. The scent of blood still clung to the air, and while sunlight only now began to filter across the swell of desert, the air remained electrically silent with the tension.

He had to stop and adjust her form time to time—the stick of blood thick upon them—his heart hammering in his chest. A dark paw dangled closer to his face, and in this quiet moment, he curled his cheek to to—planting a kiss as tenderly upon it as he could without disturbing her, or his gait. “You are not alone, Eset,” he murmured quietly to her—though he did not know if she heard.

He slows when Muat-riya raises before them—and when it is time, he waits for Khusobek to announce them—uncertain if he should place her down here, or within the walls of her gilded cage.