Rosewater Oasis i

@Samirseti @Racharra

the sun sizzled behind meryet, the desert around her a sterile landscape of nothing but sand for miles and miles. it had been this way for two weeks now. two weeks of boundless scrubland and little water, looming, crumbling canyons and dazzling nightscapes of indigo and magenta and green. her love for the red sands had always had complexities to it.

she neared a crossing between dunes and, if she really squinted, she could see trails of footprints. not just one set, but tens of them. a pack's trail.

meryet could've cried with relief right then and there.

her legs burned, but she followed until she collapsed into a sit at what must have been a border given how strongly marked it was. her tongue lolled out of her mouth and heat rolled down her brow, but her eyes were locked upon the outline of the water in the distance.

vahanet. she'd made it.