Ankyra Sound their footsoldiers in arms

there was little reason to leave sapphique. more to stay. and yet erzulie found herself before dawn drifting to the sound once so fiercely loved by caiaphas;
the floodcaves where she had lost scarab;
though her boy had come back he had not stayed.
water lapped against the obsidian's paws, and she watched the sun rise slowly over the blackpines.