Thanks to a little information gleaned from Warwick, Mazikeen knew she was to make her way to the Badlands. She had certainly taken her time doing it, in no small part due to Warwick's reassurances that he need not have Arsenic returned to him. If that was the case, she figured, why rush?

But first she wanted to make a little side trip to the Dunes. She would get to see how they were faring under Lucifer's rule, visit a few of her old haunts, perhaps gloat a little to herself about Helios' downfall, and in the end Warwick would be none the wiser.

Mazikeen pulls herself from the churning sea, the water sluicing down her coat in briny rivulets as iridescent beads of moisture collect and drip from the waterlogged locks of her tail. The spotted queen takes a moment to compose herself, trying to even her breaths to ease the heaving of her lungs. Before her the Dunes stretch out in an arid sea of gold that extend into the shimmering horizon. The sun blazes, bright and unrelenting, from the apex of a cloudless sky. Mazikeen's dark nostrils flare as she breathes in the familiar scent of the sand, dry with a faint metallic tang that settled in her nose and on her tongue.

Layered beneath the familiar fragrance of the Dunes is an unmistakably masculine musk, one that strikes a chord within her memory: Lucifer. Mazikeen's lips curl into a coy smile. How eager she is to see him again, to fall back into the easy repartee they had established during their interaction in the Falls. As she makes her first steps inland, she looses a bold, beckoning call for the Dunes king..

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queen of the cove. played by pippa.