Two Eyes Cenote [m] tierra de nadie

was eset panicking? khusobek felt the rage again, frustration; her worries eddied in on him, and he tried not to think of what it meant if they could not get safiya there.

dread; dread; now a true horrible nausea, that he did not know how long she had been in their grasp and thus — he did not know —

his breath was a whisper. his ribcage was a contortion of control. "until pharaoh sends aid, we are on our own." his gaze held her own then; he was desperate in a way he could not be with anyone else; he tried not to move safiya more as he embraced her, as he bent his crown to her own and stared into the recesses of that eye ruined by his own demand for blood.

"deaden her pain. and please give me all i need to keep her asleep. our path will be twice as long when we go. kiyya and kheti are here to serve you beneath meseba's watch."