Broken Antler Fen grow back your sharpest teeth

It was the littlest Mazoi's name that broke him from his brooding, dragging him from the shadows. He rushed toward the pair—or as much as one could rush with a broken leg—and skidded to a stop beside them, pelt bristling.

War. Khusobek injured, dying.

Eset, I will meet you home as soon as I can. A promise, heavy in its meaning. They had attacked him too, they had been the reason he had been left unguarded to be snatched up by Godsmouth. He longed to follow her, to return to Muat-Riya, where he knew he could be of service. Yet, if the Hebsut wished he go to Akashingo, he would oblige her, he owed her that much. There was, however, one condition that could shatter that resolve.

Machi rounded on the one-eyed guard:

Where is Safiya?