"Who will dance for the feast?"
The former nunh maintained his heavy gaze on K'ile, the beads cupped in the palm of his weathered hand. "Perhaps that is a question you should have asked yourself before you made your decisions, tia." He stepped back away from K'ile, features somber, and let the shadows wrap about him once more. "They represent the soul of our faith, of our family. You must earn them back, for the pain you have brought us shames you in Azeyma's light."
As K'jhanhi turned away, moving further back into the tent until he had all but disappeared, the elder K'deiki turned her face towards the disgraced tia. The decision on punishment had been clearly made, and she could not bring herself to object; the former nunh had been more forgiving than K'ile's own mother was prepared to be. Her near sightless eyes blinked past a watery film before she sighed out, "What of K'airos? Why has she not come?"
The former nunh maintained his heavy gaze on K'ile, the beads cupped in the palm of his weathered hand. "Perhaps that is a question you should have asked yourself before you made your decisions, tia." He stepped back away from K'ile, features somber, and let the shadows wrap about him once more. "They represent the soul of our faith, of our family. You must earn them back, for the pain you have brought us shames you in Azeyma's light."
As K'jhanhi turned away, moving further back into the tent until he had all but disappeared, the elder K'deiki turned her face towards the disgraced tia. The decision on punishment had been clearly made, and she could not bring herself to object; the former nunh had been more forgiving than K'ile's own mother was prepared to be. Her near sightless eyes blinked past a watery film before she sighed out, "What of K'airos? Why has she not come?"
"Song dogs barking at the break of dawn, lightning pushes the edges of a thunderstorm; and these streets, quiet as a sleeping army, send their battered dreams to heaven."
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