Recent content by Captain Jamira

"Don't worry about that," Jamira replied, more to herself than to her sister, "We'll find a way. For now, we need to move." Jamira sheltered her sister from some of the wind by staying close, holding her to help keep the pace up. It wasn't comfortable, and it wasn't something that they could...

Jamira peeled the makeshift hijab from her face, the centuries-old curtain stiff and hard to breath through. The sand fell from it in cascades of faux-gold dust. A ruinous dowry for a bride of the deep desert. Like a figure of unearthly promise, she rose from the dune behind which she and her...