Lion Head Mesa [allies] meridianus

Glaukos had been expecting an assignment within Akashingo upon his return, yet the circumstances of this particular journey were different and he knew it was not part of the original plan. He had been informed of a situation and ordered to follow Phox and Killdeer, along with their general Germanicus, to the palace where an investigation would take place.

The young man had never seen a place such as Akashingo before. It looked, from a distance, as if there were no life anywhere. As the group crossed beneath the stone eaves in to the claimed land and then deeper, to where the palace loomed, his mind shifted. Glaukos focused on the many scents that drifted across the sand, but he also watched the flitting figures.

It was quiet except the scampering of feet, or the crying of a child in some deep recess. Glaukos was immediately put-off; he had been resistant to sleeping in the Mereoan barracks where the soldiers were meant to stay, and this was even worse. These wolves lived like termites within the earth.

Glaukos stood alongside his fellow soldiers and did his best to emulate the stone that threatened him from every angle: silent, stoic, awaiting his orders. Trying his best not to let his instinctual fears from childhood overtake the many months of training he'd so far undergone. It was a tenuous moment for the bear of a man.