eye of the beholder; Posted on February 1, 2024 at 03:20:36 PM by ain
Ain
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The last unbetrothed child of the Sadim. Her Uncle Cousin - not as gross as that sounds - were gone off to the Peak. Her other cousin was off with her pet husband-to-be, The other cousin was amidst the leading herd, giving power to Helios from Antares. She was the only uncomplicated one of the lot. She did not, unlike so many of the Sadim daughters, choose her man from the cradle. She was too free with her spirit, so distant from her heart, to be hunting for such bonds now.
It is perhaps that Shu had coveted her as he had coveted her father. Freedom was paramount to those that Shu took an interest in -- and following the law of her cousin Al Hilal was the least binding of all the options she had seen laid at her feet. Sometimes she spent that with Niyat to lift up her spirits, sometimes she spent time with Shahin to break her fixation, sometimes she spent it trying to help Al Hilal heal… but always it was on her terms.
Like a cat, she supposed. It was like the stories of little felines from her family’s homeland. Pet me, don’t pet me, always on her terms and never at the behest of others lest she scratch and bite.
Her mane, ever bleaching at the tips, brushes the sands, grown already so much, as she nuzzles the grains away from a sprout that seemed to reach up out of the nothingness she called home. Her tail snaps, not in irritation but in relief, the grinding of her teeth bringing fluid out from the blades and roots she’d managed to slip free of the shifting earth.
OF THE EASTERN DUNES
▻ arabian x akhal teke mare - smoky black rabicano - 15.1 hh - aldebaran x caria ◅