“They just feel safer.”
A Nilewater immortal of The Two Lands
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The great hippopotamus, standing upright, lion-pawed and crocodile-backed, guarding every childbirth for three thousand years. The most feared animal of the river, repurposed as its gentlest guardian. Mothers don't ask questions. They just feel safer.
She is standing watch over a birthing bed in the workers' village, upright and enormous in the lamplight, and the mother is already calmer.
She will stand over every birth until the births stop. The births have never stopped.
“Bes's tongue went back in. Mid-dance, on a bedroom wall in the workers' village — the dwarf stopped, tongue in, eyes wide, staring at the corner of the room. The child woke up crying. The demons, the old wives say, noticed before anyone else did.”
The dwarf stopped dancing mid-step. The demons noticed.
Nome gods, household gods, temple cults — the gods people actually meet: potters, weavers, midwives, protectors, and the lioness you do not cross.
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