Lion Head Mesa copper

set for tomorrow morning around 9am <3 tags for ref!

tavina would never have allowed @Crowfeather to leave the mesa, let alone without an escort. she had learned from belen that the day before, he had done so. but she had chosen not to harass the boy; he had come back after all, strained and drawn. but he had come back. pharaoh need not be informed.

at half past six she was up again, nourishing herself not upon sleep but upon the silence of morning before the rest awoke. she herself had slept deeply, and now she visited jawahir and the two babes with a meal. she bathed thereafter in the wellspring, humming lightly to herself.

and then she had gone to fetch belen from where she lay sprawled with a belly full of pine-wine, and roused the girl, sending her for a quick breakfast and a groom before ordering her off to help the queen that morning. tavina had gone to begin the prince's day, but found him no longer abed. her brow furrowed. she questioned @Gucci and then belen once more. she was not yet panicked; perhaps he had gone to restlessly explore the grounds without.

it had rained in the night. the red land was wet with it. a patrol did not turn up more than a scuffmark here or there. tavina then started to worry, and it was at that hour she went to wake the pharaoh.

"divine one," the sesh greeted, creeping into his bedchamber and averting her eyes from where he was tangled sleeping with kasmut. "the prince is gone. he seems to have simply left."