[ He is not at all one of family, her guard, she might ask if he were a trader than had wandered far from his goods, to look so different to any of her people and still be here. But that was impossible too - in the heart of her palace, no less? How could he have just wandered in here? Maybe he had been looking for one of her advisers and stumbled through the wrong path of the Mahal?
Her hands are still clasped, the silver tray with offerings at the Goddess at the foot of the stone statue. In her many hands, each holds an emblem, a symbol of her many fold divinities. The stone old, not painted as many were, but carved in intricacies, and around her neck, hangs a necklace of yellow flowers.
Her eyes turn to it - before back to him. Her leg curling around herself. The stone under her knees was warm still despite the sun setting long ago. But out here - in the flat rocky plateau of Jhansi, nothing ever truly seemed to cool. ]
I would say you have definitely done that. [ Her hands settle at last, into her palm. If he was an assassin, he would not ask such. He would have struck her already. ] I look for calm and solace. [ She doesn't take her eyes off him, but her chin lifts, indicating the quietly smiling Goddess. ]
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Her hands are still clasped, the silver tray with offerings at the Goddess at the foot of the stone statue. In her many hands, each holds an emblem, a symbol of her many fold divinities. The stone old, not painted as many were, but carved in intricacies, and around her neck, hangs a necklace of yellow flowers.
Her eyes turn to it - before back to him. Her leg curling around herself. The stone under her knees was warm still despite the sun setting long ago. But out here - in the flat rocky plateau of Jhansi, nothing ever truly seemed to cool. ]
I would say you have definitely done that. [ Her hands settle at last, into her palm. If he was an assassin, he would not ask such. He would have struck her already. ] I look for calm and solace. [ She doesn't take her eyes off him, but her chin lifts, indicating the quietly smiling Goddess. ]