Ankyra Sound gulper shark

was that suggestive? sobeille took longer to reply this time, reworking the framework of her response. she surveyed the stranger from bow to stern and realized they'd yet to share names -- something that sparked unfamiliar excitement.

her maman would like her. but would she like sapphique's culture?

sobeille guided her down another tunnel that split out into a second large chamber. this one was smaller than the first, but clearly excavated. what lived here before had clawed the surface of the walls and left thousands of illegible scriptures in every bite of claw to stone.

at the center, a crude plinth.

an altar.

and around it, the desecrated and dusty remains of sacrificial bones.

not sobeille's doing, by the ages of dust upon them. the girl turned her eye to dogfish in silence.