Lion Head Mesa bola

there were only two eyes, not two-dozen; though they had begun to darken from their childish robins-egg blue to something a little more sinister and gray.

nazli had brought a bundle from tavina; she didn't ask what it was, but it smelled pungent like the storehouse, and could have been food wreathed in herbs or merely medicines for the new mother.

she waited expectantly, curiously, at the door; but she did not think to announce herself until treva had caught her staring, and with a little oop! raise of her ears the girl pressed her luck by stepping through the eaves.

my lady, uhm, miss tee -- i mean, tavina, sent me with... here, quickly the girl placed the bundle down where it spread open, so that treva could look upon the offered pile. if she refused it, nazli would take it back where it had come from.