Rosewater Oasis Plume

Not even Nokht's begrudging apology could lighten Akhre's mood, but still he listened. He listened and he tried to understand, though his eyes sank to watch the reflections in the pool at his feet. The boy spoke something of the truth, though the spirit himself found it difficult to grasp why the gods would turn on Kheti's family. But they had done so nonetheless; there must have been a reason.

What was said next, however, drew a whine from his throat. "No. They are everywhere. In rocks, in pools, in stars. You see them every night, don't you?" The sky above was a constant, a reminder that the dead were waiting for them in the Land of Reeds. "As long as they are there, I think- I think there is not a place they can't reach."