Two Eyes Cenote Threadsnake

“Our Pharaoh and Muat-riya want what is best for you, Safiya. But not everyone is this way. There are those out there who do not have your interests at heart. They want to control, or take advantage of you. They can be quite convincing. They can bombard you with gifts and acts of affection to gain your trust, or prey upon your sympathy and goodwill, until they have what they are after– you. All of you.” Her tongue burgeons with such poison. Resentment flared for the man who had stolen Safiya’s moral world view at such a tender age.

“It is not only men. Women will do this, too. I know it is difficult to understand why anyone would in act this way. But I am afraid it is more common than we’d like to believe.” She looks fully into the blue rungs of color in the girls’ eyes, searching for traces of her mind’s true part.

"We must be careful to guard ourselves."