After pressing K'ailia's forehead into the ground, K'takka pulled her knuckles from the girl's neck and rolled back away from her, easing back onto her sharp heels letting her head roll, gaze taking in the many fetishes on the ceiling. On a whim, she reached up and took one that was above the threshhold of the tent, pulling it free with a snap of leather. Orobon bones clattered, buzzard feathers spinning as K'takka's furtive movements brought her around in front of K'ailia.
She threw the fetish on the ground in front of K'ailia, the sound a violent tumult of clicking bone, and then spun away. She took a wide bowl and put a very small amount of rust-colored powder in it. She dumped the powder over the fetish on the ground, and lay the bowl upside-down so that it covered both the fetish and K'ailia's head, effectively trapping the girl with the fetish and the powder.
K'takka leaned her meager weight on the bowl to hold it and the girl in place. She explained, "The orobon bones are an artifact which inspires wisdom and calm. The powder is from the smoldering glands in a sand-drake's neck: if you inhale very much of it, your lungs will be burned. I implore you to breathe very slowly, very very carefully, and to think. I once gave your father such a lesson."
As though summoned, K'yohko Nunh entered the tent. K'takka's silver eyes rose to him immediately, and for a moment they flashed with a softer expression. But K'ailia's weight beneath her kept her in the moment, and she gestured down with her eyes. "I am told the fire-dancer instructed her to return. This somehow does sound like likely, doesn't it?"
She threw the fetish on the ground in front of K'ailia, the sound a violent tumult of clicking bone, and then spun away. She took a wide bowl and put a very small amount of rust-colored powder in it. She dumped the powder over the fetish on the ground, and lay the bowl upside-down so that it covered both the fetish and K'ailia's head, effectively trapping the girl with the fetish and the powder.
K'takka leaned her meager weight on the bowl to hold it and the girl in place. She explained, "The orobon bones are an artifact which inspires wisdom and calm. The powder is from the smoldering glands in a sand-drake's neck: if you inhale very much of it, your lungs will be burned. I implore you to breathe very slowly, very very carefully, and to think. I once gave your father such a lesson."
As though summoned, K'yohko Nunh entered the tent. K'takka's silver eyes rose to him immediately, and for a moment they flashed with a softer expression. But K'ailia's weight beneath her kept her in the moment, and she gestured down with her eyes. "I am told the fire-dancer instructed her to return. This somehow does sound like likely, doesn't it?"
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