The Horrific Business of Gates

~Chapter 100~

Watching the Ji'vie move along the shore of the underground sea, its own waters reflecting the artificial sky of the Quarter's ceiling, Mae could still recall the way Jasper's eyes captured the stars as he gazed up at the heavens with a slack jaw, the night of their first family feast. She wore a content smile, using the memories sparked by the waters to ease her mind from the task of the day and what it entailed.

Mae had been overjoyed that she and Baas had made it back to the Quarter as she had promised, due to some miracle that the Tag'thyrian market had the last of what they needed, allowing them to arrive three days sooner than expected. Now she stood in the distance, as had been asked of her given the danger and the flurry of preparations along the beach below. Knowing the water was hot enough to scald her, had made it that much easier of a request to follow, along with the benefit of her current vantage.