Redsand Canyon i wanna stay with you for a long time,

a few assumptions made for cohesion -- if any are not ok please PM me and i'll happily edit! <33

qiao called for @Belladonna with another strip of aged meat to barter. this time it was to relay a message back to @Ramesses -- that she had been received kindly, and would soon return to akashingo.

with that business settled, qiao set to wandering the halls in search of the lady @Ruenna. she had been in mereo long enough to understand the quiet pulse of their order. there was a rhythm here, heard but not seen -- and she knew soon the steady tick-tock of time would bid her close here.

one last missive, then; qiao's gaze trailed the ice-limned stonekeep, searching for the distinctive gait of mereo's matrona.