They left one morning when the mist still clung to the river. Marabine watched them go with the same indifferent light it lent all passersby. They traveled south along a coast that tasted of salt and rosemary. They stopped in villages where markets were held under fig trees, in towns that hosted festivals of color. Ren taught people how to tend bruised fruit back to sweetness; Mara opened a stall where she sold woven ribbons and small prints of the city she had left behind, each capturing an alley, a face, a perfume.
“Orion,” she said. Because his scars looked like a hunter’s belt. eros exotica
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