Two Eyes Cenote [m] tierra de nadie

Her face burns, the ground wet with Safiya’s fallen blood. The salve is brought to the girl’s lips, wounds flushed with warmed water, then lathered in the pulp from aloe plants. Strands of chamomile are dressed across the flesh but they will not hold for long.

It is with a sob Eset realizes, “I can do no more.”

Amber eyes race as she considers the next move.

“She needs to go to Akashingo. She will be seen by a sesh there until Tavina’s arrival.”

Sepsis. Infection. There was too much that could happen beneath an unskilled eye. She needed a doctor.

She needed to get the hell away from Muat-riya.