Redsand Canyon double cuppin' in the ride

Faded

Aquene knew that someday she’d have to reveal parts of her history to both the Imperator and Matrona, but at this moment she had no real reason to believe that they would find her… she had already been settled for nearly two months and neither her father nor Dimitri had come knocking at Mereo’s doorstep demanding her back.
 
Perhaps, she was just being paranoid… but the more she thought about it and tried to reason through it, the harder it was to believe that they were not on the warpath for what she was certain they perceived as a betrayal… perhaps not her father, but Dimitri had been very insistent. She was his. She shuddered softly after the Imperator walked away, having offered a nod of respect to him before he left and she headed back her own way. A walk would surely clear her head.