Serpent Lake I'm sorry, I didn't mean any of it; I just got too lonely, lonely woah

Kemal's expression was unreadable as ever while he listened, but his mind was anything but calm.

It wasn't the fact that she apparently knew him or the snake, but rather calling the woman hysterical that forced Kemal to question if another wayward relative had come to find them. He pushed out a breath that only the most exhausted of men could manage. What was mama doing all the way out here?

You made the right choice, Panacea. You go home, rest. He would investigate the woman at the mesa himself. Have someone look at that bite. He grimaced down at the perpetrator, a dead snake, and kicked it aside.