Sky Mesa silk & stone

She did nothing wrong. But she was being punished none the less. She did not get to say goodbye to her mother or her siblings. Granted part of her didn't care to say goodbye to Kheti and Tiye and yet part of her did.  She was being thrust into training before she was well trained. Because she had been kind to someone who she was not supposed to be kind too?

But how was that determined. He had never been cruel to her. He had not spoken rudely to her as far as she could tell. But there was a language issue.

She looked up at her papa and gave a firm nod. Slowly she lifted her pack and she looked to Beastie with a small smile. Though it hurt. It hurt. But she stepped as fearlessly into this unknown as she did everything else. With a held high chin and the spine of a soldier.