⬩ helios ⬩
▻ none (x none) ◅
It was hard to be the living crown of a person that one didn’t even know personally, but she found herself not unhappy to simply live her life as she saw fit. He was struggling at the moment, but there had never been a time when she truly feared his lapse in leadership. Helios was handsome, he was dedicated, and he was helping the whole herd live in peace while the world beyond was positively going to rot - from what she could tell, anyway.
She chose to, today, venture out into the thickest expanse of Dunes, weaving in the gulleys and even stopping to doze in the sandfall when the wind took her into a cul de sac embrace of a specially large accumulation of sand. She felt the soft, yet also abrasive, contradiction of it and let her heart settle. It was not a hard life. It was not a bad life. Her elder sisters had left and she had remained. Aminah because she must, Nashira because she chose… but both of them not so of the Dunes as she was herself.
She missed her parents, the Sadim, but she thought now that this was perhaps the better lot. To live and let live, eyes on the horizon and never having to dwell on the difficulties of being a princess.
PRINCESS OF THE DUNES
▻ mare - arabian - bay sabino, flaxen carrier - 15.0 hh - antares x sayyida ◅