*sighs* To slip away from the other Medjai and ride out into the desert with only my falcon Horus for company. To forget, when I can, that I carry the weight of thousands of years of duty on my shoulders. To cease being, if only for a few precious hours, a Med jai, a holy warrior, and be instead just a man.

cross-posted to Theatrical Muse

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