Spotted Eagle Mountain snake

she was exhausted and at some point it felt as if adrenaline turned into delirium. she had cried somewhere between there and here.

she cried now! but she blamed it on anything but her heart. she blamed it on dirt, on the wind, on the cold.

steadied herself with a sharp exhale and knew she would not be heard upon these stones. not in the far reaches of the palace, she thought. but there could be none other to call than @Germanicus himself.

a day of reckoning had come upon them.