valadium

 mild travels took tavina away from the oasis, though its edge stayed just in sight. a carryweave of lillygrass was looped over her shoulder, and in it fluttered all manner of leaves and stalks and glinting blossoms.
 but it was something else for which she searched, something important. a fever was beginning to gather in tavina's body, and she loathed its feeling. this herb would stave it off.
 a rivulet of water seemed to appear from the sand, welling, and she followed it to where dunes turned to an odd blue-green smattering of plantlife. desert became hills, until tavina realized she had discovered a tiny valley maybe an hour's walk from the oasis itself.
 and within it, "aha!" she gloated, crouching to harvest an unobtrusive little golden plant.

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 this would do. it had many names, several of which tavina had forgotten. what mattered is that it existed here in this world, and that it was surely just as effective. the sesh had just placed several of the golden threads upon her tongue when a voice lilted nearby. purpled eyes turned to behold a stunning face, wisped body, and a gaze that knew more than she wished to admit.
 another beautiful gem, no doubt gathered for the pleasure of rashepses she felt. a sting rose then; a memory of ramesses shouting at her, sickened by the morning after far too much wine, jawahir in his bed.
 did their Consort share the same predilection for those desires destructive?
 of course tavina was moved by loveliness; the gap of her starvation grew each day, until thoughts of nuri flung across the modest coverlets of her room become a tormenting thought.
 "none here," answered the sesh at last, smiling despite herself. "back at our gathering-place, little pastel blossoms. i'm tavina," the woman introduced, trying. trying. "the royal physician."
 "have you long been with akashingo?" on her tongue, bitterness held back and plant-sourness blooming.

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 not a servant. a noblewoman. how many of those had akashingo seen over the years? she count count few, though one had married a member of ramesses' court, she supposed. intrigued by the way nebet had addressed her, tavina nodded. "indeed i am. is there something you need?" 

 more than anything it was easier to adopt such a role. she had became adaptable out of necessity. it certainly was preferable to recognizing the way heat was lighting her skin as body purred to the women's natural curse. never. never for her, and that was why she had come to find the plant.

 while she waited for a reply, for an excuse to draw her eyes away, the sesh bent and began to harvest some few threads more, dropping them to a twist of oryx-hide for transport back to their encampment.

 how very like the gods to offer such torment now; she still did vacillate between believing in them and not at all. thoughts; multitasking there in the heat to avoid her own desire.

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