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She hadn't slept well ever since her brother disappeared. The three siblings had been shushed and soothed by Nazli and servants in equal measure, but Asenath refused to settle. She roamed and scoured the red halls calling for Nokht until her throat ached from the effort, only returning to the den when escorted back by a servant where her dreams were plagued with purple-orange moons, alongside tall and spindly figures who spat strange, green venom. She began chasing the shadows that appeared along the walls, thinking them to be her brother until she rounded the corner only to find one of the smaller members of Muat-riya's ranks staring back at her in confusion.

The past few days had seen their home become alive with activity and tension, but the adults told them little of what was happening and even less about the whereabouts of their lost sibling. They were ushered back to Nazli's den if they ever wandered too far from the safety of the palace.

Unfortunately, Asenath had inherited Medusa's stubborn streak. She crept from their chamber after finding herself yet again unable – and unwilling – to sleep. Her patchwork coat helped conceal her somewhat as she danced in and out of light and shadow, on another futile search through the halls – searching, looking, thinking maybe this time...

She didn't believe the scent that hit her nose, not at first. Nokht's – faint, but there, along with the strong tang of blood, then of herbs, followed by the unmistakeable smell of the palace's physician who Asenath realised just now she had not seen in quite some time.

Her pace quickened until she was sprinting towards the room, arriving just as both women were swathing her poor brother's limb; though from the doorway, she could not tell just what they were doing. She peered anxiously around the stone corner, partially hiding, partially desperate to call out for her brother. Who was the pale woman with Tavina? They both reeked of blood, of strange scents of the outside world. Another was in the room, too, a hulking dark mass laying further from the women and the boy they worked on.

Blue eyes darted from form to form as Asenath remained crouching in the shadows, watching, trying to complete a puzzle out of ill-fitting pieces.