Two Eyes Cenote pétalo

he was a hotheaded beast, and the crumpling of the form beneath him confused khusobek long enough to bring down the boil of his rage.

to his knowledge, this was the second bundle left by the silent man. his mind probed around the oddities, again grasping to where this individual had spoken with safiya enough times for his daughter to learn some handful of his inferior words.

his teeth closed on the nape; when it was bloodied he moved down the spine and seized the man by its base. fighting would break the bone; paralysis.

khusobek began to drag the man back toward the mouth of the cenote, that thorn-studded vine dancing in his mind.