Lion Head Mesa Ogre Daughters

Set before the PHE in Firefly Glen! For @Racharra <3

Life within the red palace was a far cry to the quaint, little life the girl had at the lake. Her father would bring their mother meats. Zharille would flash him her teeth. The children would wrestle, often with Aiman being the loser. The air was laced with wood scent, lake water, and fish.

Akashingo was a different life altogether.

The culture shock was would have rendered her paralyzed were she not hungry to know this strange new world. The sun was fierce in comparison to the wooded shade of the lake. Even stranger was that the wolves rose to meet the sun. "To greet Ra." Those were the words used by her father and many of the not-wolf strangers to describe the ritual. Taliba had been given words to say as they did so. Strange and unusual, the girl often stumbled over them (but she was getting more and more right by the day). The not-wolves also had a name. "Coyotes." Or "coywolves" as some said in a scandalous air that the girl was too young to understand.

Each day she was to follow her father and brothers on patrol. The girl's paws and legs had begun to ache. Not just from the new sort of work she had been introduced to, but the beginnings of a new great change. Unbeknownst to her, her body was preparing itself for growth. Along with it came new aches and pains and a very grumpy child that Mesen-ka would have the misfortune of entertaining as he worked.

Today Taliba scampered away from her father as soon as she could without getting scolded for it. He was stricter here too. The girl pouted as she took to the darkened hallways of the palace. She did not have an entourage to follow her as the royal family had. She found it refreshing to escape into seclusion. She had begun exploring the hallways of the palace outside of what her father showed her. She wasn't allowed in some for some unknown reason and often had been chased away by the fellahin. So the girl was quiet as she passed by various empty chambers, only to stop when she saw servants posted outside a chamber set in her path.

Ducking around the corner, Taliba peered at the entrance of what must not have been an empty chamber.

Who was in there?