Serpent Lake Eye, tooth, claw, death

For days Safiya had fought with Osiris God of death to release her. To not weigh her heart yet. For she knew the dark way it held itself she would not pass. Teeth and claws flashing in the dark. Pain and suffering body sundered. But she fought. Hells teeth and wrath were what she was made up of at the moment.

And then she had fought to strengthen her legs. But every moment she spent here. Was one less moment she was looking for Machiavelli. She would not let him out there all alone. Her revenge could become second as long as his life was first. 

She snuck away from her handlers as moonlight splashed along the Redstone. Pure adrenaline keeping her going. Until she found herself at the lake and her body gave out. The medicine no longer in her system. The pain crippling. The ghost of an eye haunting her. She had tripped and fell her body covered in new scratch marks, new scrapes as she moved through the world with only one eye.

It was this singular eye she fixed back on the palace as she collapsed in the dirt by the shores of the lake. Beautiful with the stars above it. 

Just a minute. She needed just a minute to rally and return. Despite that it made her ill.

 She wanted to save him. Machi needed her.