K'nahli paused for a moment in apprehension, before engaging herself in the hug.
"...K'ailia...." K'nahli whispered softly to the frightened Miqo'te in a lulling tone, trying her best to calm her younger sister.
"What are you doing out here? You know better than to go wandering, your mother with be worr-..." K'nahli stopped mid-sentence. Her expression turned completely vacant. Her eyes became an everlasting and destitute abyss as she stared blankly at the gritty ground beyond the young Miqo'te clinging to her tearfully.
(K'luha...) she thought silently to herself, as the realisation of her grave situation suddenly dawned upon her.
K'nahli quickly threw K'ailia off of her, causing her to land with a slight bump before her. Her eyes still focused on the ground, darting back and forth repeatedly as her thoughts raced inside of her head.
(It's coming....)
"K'ailia... you.... you need to tell your mother..." K'nahli tried to construct a sentence as she began edging away from the girl, but her panic made that understandably difficult. She hopped to her feet and immediately stole her arrow back from the cactus she had targeted earlier. She quickly snapped it into little pieces and discarded them into the brush where they would not be found before taking several steps backwards as her fully-dilated eyes turned to focus on K'ailia's small figure.
"..tell her.... tell her I saved you from a sand worm or something!" she finally finished her sentence with a distressed tone as she turned on her heels and sped off in the opposite direction, abandoning the confused girl who was still oblivious to the mini sandstorm forming in the distance behind her.
"...K'ailia...." K'nahli whispered softly to the frightened Miqo'te in a lulling tone, trying her best to calm her younger sister.
"What are you doing out here? You know better than to go wandering, your mother with be worr-..." K'nahli stopped mid-sentence. Her expression turned completely vacant. Her eyes became an everlasting and destitute abyss as she stared blankly at the gritty ground beyond the young Miqo'te clinging to her tearfully.
(K'luha...) she thought silently to herself, as the realisation of her grave situation suddenly dawned upon her.
K'nahli quickly threw K'ailia off of her, causing her to land with a slight bump before her. Her eyes still focused on the ground, darting back and forth repeatedly as her thoughts raced inside of her head.
(It's coming....)
"K'ailia... you.... you need to tell your mother..." K'nahli tried to construct a sentence as she began edging away from the girl, but her panic made that understandably difficult. She hopped to her feet and immediately stole her arrow back from the cactus she had targeted earlier. She quickly snapped it into little pieces and discarded them into the brush where they would not be found before taking several steps backwards as her fully-dilated eyes turned to focus on K'ailia's small figure.
"..tell her.... tell her I saved you from a sand worm or something!" she finally finished her sentence with a distressed tone as she turned on her heels and sped off in the opposite direction, abandoning the confused girl who was still oblivious to the mini sandstorm forming in the distance behind her.
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Characters: Andre Winter (Hy'ur) / K'nahli Yohko (Miqo'te)
