Two Eyes Cenote Are we having fun yet?

Tiye exploded with insults and as hurtful as it was to hear, Kiyya didn't take it fully to heart. He didn't say anything else about Safiya though - as that seemed to be making things worse when he did.

When his sister called him a coward he felt a lance go through him, aimed true. He wanted to tell her no, or demand she stop, but he also knew she was to some degree, right.

Kiyya shrank. Tiye and he were equal in age, passion, and skill at this point in their lives, but she seemed convinced that she knew better than even their father.

You'll be alone forever, Tiye. His eyes were glistening and he didn't think about how he looked, how it might feed Tiye's ego to see how acutely her words affected him; but he looked at her now with unabashed hurt.

With a sniffle, the boy concluded, You'll be alone and you'll deserve it! And even as he said this, the boy was scrambling to turn and go, fleeing like the coward he apparently was.