Lion Head Mesa Eien ni Tomodachi

ramesses exited the room. around him energies hissed and departed.

qiao allowed their seething to settle before she ducked into the chambers, eyes softly upon tavina and then her charge. 

the queen looked stricken with exhaustion, that thousand-yard stare as familiar to qiao as her own blood. she smiled sympathetically and brought the bundle to tavina.

meat rich with fat to restore the queen's energy when her hunger returns. give her a day, and qiao imagined satsu would be ravenous. feeding three mouths was hungry work. and the herbs are to help stabilize her as she nurses.

qiao turned to satsu with a careful bow, the room too dark to make out her expression. queen satsu, you have done grandly to deliver three new children into the world. the hemet wondered then if satsu knew the darker details of ramesses' arrangement. i will be but a call away, should you need me for anything.