Two Eyes Cenote barley & brawn

ik he's not off NPC yet but I couldn't resist

Kheti was no stranger to lavish feasts and celebration, though this would be the first he felt any real connection to. His sister would graduate today and for a while the fellahin busied himself with occupying those who attended if only to distract from a strange, nagging feeling.

For where pride should swell his chest, the boy felt also an ugly twinge of jealousy. Safiya - shining Safiya - she had always been the favourite. During the long march, it was she that would take the vanguard. No matter how hard Kheti worked it always felt as though his paws would sink a little deeper into the sand.

Spying Safiya through the crowd, he caught her eye and offered an encouraging wag of his tail. That should have been him up there.

He fell into place besides Kiyya as father's voice summoned the crowd, smile saccharine though the choke in his voice betrayed his confliction. "You've done well, sister!"