IV: Magic
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Akshara followed the river, drinking the water and eating the tasteless plants that grew along the riverbank for sustenance. She knew which ones were poisonous, and which were safe. That was one of the few benefits of her priestess education. She had been instructed that the water needed to be blessed and purified with prayers to Tars’keli before it was safe to drink, so even though she despised these prayers, Akshara performed them, nonetheless. Some habits are hard to let go.
She had brought no supplies, and only had her light blue novitiate priestess robe. The days were sweltering, and the nights began to grow colder the farther west she traveled. She hadn’t been closely counting the days and didn’t care how long it took. Somehow, her legs kept going, and when she took re
