Literature
Khet - Prologue (V2)
Khet - Chapter 1
A shallow breath shuddered past small, full lips, and tiny beads of muddy water dripped from the tiny chin below. A cool morning breeze swept down the steep valley walls, stirring silken strands of hair the color of aged barley. I was not yet the age to bear children the first time I met Leander, though those days were not long off. A dozen summers had come and gone in my lifetime, seasons spent helping my mother and sisters plant the newly green stalks of rice in the terraced hills of our valley. My small hands were scarred and calloused with a lifetime of hard labor, and in that moment, I held dearly to the bright green g