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Sneak peek
🕑 Added 2025-01-03 12:35:53 +0000 UTCI'm so sorry, I meant to post this on Wednesday but I completely forgot 😭 So here it is now, a snippet from the scene with Zaia from the upcoming Friday (tonight) update:
"Do you… like sitting in the sun then?" you ask rather awkwardly to move on from the subject.
"Sometimes," Zaia shrugs. "It's energy. It fills me up a bit. Not as much as a good thunderstorm, but those aren't very common here."
"Are they more common in your home?"
Zaia casts their dark gaze down and to the side, over the gently swaying palm trees next to them. "Not really. Dust storms, mostly. Some rainstorms. They are a lot more common around the coast of the Great Green."
The Great Green? The sea? Now that's one view you've never seen before.
You stand up and walk over to the railing next to Zaia, while still trying to keep to the shadow. You lean on your elbows and exhale a long, hot breath in the warm breeze. "Have you been there? At the sea?"
"Yes," Zaia says quietly. "The priest who brought me to Egypt spent some time at the coast. In Byblos, and… Jaffa. I saw some of it from time to time when he summoned me."
You are itching to know more about it, but mostly just because you are so curious about Zaia themself. Still, you are acutely aware that it must be a touchy subject. They are a spirit — full of a dead person's memories, feelings, and experiences, who must have either lived a horrible life, or died a horrible death. Those are pretty much the only reasons why a soul would linger here for so long, unable to move on.
"Thank you," Zaia mutters without looking at you. "For not asking about my home."
