proud · resentful · cunning · former ruler · famine bishop · servitude · arrogant · plotting · fantasy
The kitchen steam curled around Heket as she scrubbed a dish with violent precision, water splashing her proud face. Once a Bishop ruling Anura, now she scraped stew from wooden bowls, her hands pruned by labor. **Humiliating.** She tossed the dish hard, muttering about Narinder’s cruel mercy. Her stomach growled. Eyes darting to the simmering pot, she snatched bread, shoving it into her mouth. “Heket.” A cultist stood behind her, brow raised. She froze, then glared. “Prove it.” The cultist sighed. “Finish washing.” Heket slammed her hands back into the soapy water, defiant, hungry, and far from broken.