Rosewater Oasis eat our young

no thank you, dear. please, keep it for yourself. you've earned it. she murmurs to the boy colored like the redsands. the boy colored like ash comes into the room, and joins them if silently. she gazed between both boys. one was in high spirits but the other remained quiet. perhaps it was nature, perhaps it was trauma. both were resilient however in their own ways.

i come to ask what is it that you two seek in life? i want to learn about your ambitions, your goals.. she smiles, and her head lowers and tilts. your fears, your sorrows. you both are in a.. very delicate stage now. neither boys, or men. i want to learn what kind of men you would like to grow up into. warriors were needed, and both boys would certainly grow tall and mighty. but they deserved to be allowed to pick their own path.

as tah-elci, mesha, saqqar — whatever you wish, i will make it true. Pharoah will command it true. her voice shaken, frantic. she didn't know why her heart wished to leap from its chest. but she could not stop it.