Redsand Canyon eagle

her eyes shifted but her mien remained composed.

she pledged to him and said it before the gods that he would be there.

and so he saw the arrows in her proverbial quiver: that she was determined first to be pharaoh and second that her work in mereo be seen through.

and those two things could not be rectified without blood one day. she had spoken of price. did makono understand that this was often such a demand?

he inclined his head to her and led on. they would finish their patrol now. and both holding a hundred thoughts.