"I thank you, Altair, for your help, and guidance into these sands," she smiled, swayed her tail and felt the sand warm beneath her as she stepped forward. She would visit him time and again, she believed, for her soothed her anxieties of making a new start. Leaving the firekin was hard, but coming to terms that she would find a new home, and never return, it wasn't easy.
Mwako'Nakama almost went to embrace him, to feel comfort that finding new friends, and this place, was not going to be as difficult as her heart told her.
But as she walked into the sands, towards the temple, water and mountains, her spirit felt at ease, and the flame in her heart flickered, and stayed small.
