Two Eyes Cenote echinopsis

set sometime after Safiya leaves and before the mazoi march

"Tiye?" the boy called into the darkness. The sun was setting earlier, the nights becoming colder, and he wished jadedly he was curled in the furs of his bed. Yet here he stood, at the doors of @Tiye's chambers, the pelt of a desert weasel bundled carefully in his jaws. It's brown furs were ticked with white, something the boy thought made it appear rather regal if used as a scarf or a shawl.

In it were swaddled sun-dried cacti flowers and blue bunting feathers, gifts carefully procured for Safiya that he now wished to offer the viper. Khusobek's punishment was gruelling and one he did not envy and he thought, stupidly, that a collection of pretty things might cheer her up

At least, that had always been her currency..