Lion Head Mesa There is an elephant on my chest

Safiya smiled. The one singular eye crinkling up with a sliver of mirth and joy. Showing how she had been perhaps before all of this.

Whats to say? I got tangled up in the old age. Girl meets boy who treats her well. Not mean to her. Father and emperor and hebshet don't like him. Say I am wrong to trust him. But he has never harmed me even when he could but he is not a good man.

Safiya stretched and whimpered. Tried to work feeling into her unworked limbs. She took a step or two with a grimace.

But he is nice to me. I consider him a friend at least. Well he was captured by my father. Tortured I'm sure. And his cohort wanted him back. Ambushed me and Machi. Took my eye to prove a point. And here I am and they're free.

She looked up at the she wolf.I'm gonna kill the one who took my eye. I am. ahe nodded resolute. And tried a few more steps.