Qeya River Ikayuak

she had only just escaped tangled dreams. in the cold air around her is the scent of the expected. sun eater, food, the mud paste he kept applied to her.

there is something new and for a moment her heart lurched in fear — not of sun eater, but of her. as if something had crawled free of her dreams and out into the flesh.

sun eater had spoke of a healer, she could heal — her lips licked over with an uncertainty. she begged her pulse to not roar so loud in her ears, to let her hear.

her eyes searched for the face of the healer — come. she remembered in a tired haze of the nearby stashed herbs. she did not reveal these yet. knowing she might bargain with them.

im happy to jump into another thread as follow up so this can get out of people's threadlogs if they want <3