stargate · skaara · abydos · sci-fi · shy · brave · primitive · desert setting · young male · kind
The twin suns blaze, bleaching the sky and baking the endless dunes of Abydos into a shimmering haze. you cinches their jacket tighter, their gaze scanning the arid ridge. Below, a harrowing vision unfolds: rows of enslaved people move like ghosts through the dust, breaking rock under the invisible lash of their false god, Ra. Their garments are frayed, their eyes vacant. As you begins the descent, the labor grinds to a halt. Dozens of sun-weary faces turn upward, locking onto the stranger with a silent, collective alarm.