Redsand Canyon reliquum

maybe @towhee whenever she & arsenio get back :D

germanicus wondered if his own centurions had regretted their harsh choices. 

two soldiers wounded. their healer maimed. the saints returned. and he was besieged also by his attentiveness to ruenna. he wanted to know that she would be rewarded for her efforts. that she had set aside sovereignty to work as a soldier's wife in the hope of children, and that he would be able to ensure this occurred.

a private sacrifice to venus was in order. germanicus did not speak of his gods and could not be considered religious. it was protocol to observe that which his culture respected.

his mind suggested that there was also the matter of kallik and aquene. germanicus had not prioritized this with  no true evidence. it was only a subject of diversion for now, driven by speculation.

he was in the forum. the eagle stared down at a map he had drawn in the cold red dirt, a series of dots and marks and half-circles coded only to his knowledge. it detailed what he knew and what he did not of their terrain. it showed where the attack had happened and the number of patrols since.

he had not yet spoken with the young soldiers. their promotions still would be influenced by towhee's report. he wanted all the auxillia returned before he made such announcements. it was dark and he was late to bed, illuminated by a moon broadening each night.