Rosewater Oasis sebayet

So it would take time. Thankfully, the spirit had plenty of it.

He must keep an open mind then, for it was not just in sound that the gods relayed their wishes. Samirseti spoke of other, mundane things, and Akhre resisted the urge to question his Pharaoh once again as a firm paw brought him back to reality. This, he already knew - had seen it in the way the sun had set aflame the mesa. To get confirmation was enough to stir his tail softly against the sand.

"They have shown themselves to me once before. The day I left to come to you, I'm sure of it." But to tune into the world surrounding the oasis would take practice, and a seed of doubt began to burrow itself into the spirit's mind. "I'm scared of being wrong, Pharaoh. What if what they want to say is not what I hear?"