"Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder why you're free and I'm not," said Bastet as she lay on the ground looking up at the countless stars within the sky above her. Beside her, Falak merely glanced at his mistress but did not comment.
The fact that she had been asleep for over a hundred and fifty years, and then just lay where she sat for another fifty years after waking up may have held the reason for why she wasn't free! The answer was that she was just too lazy to pursue it!
The two of them would probably spend the next few centuries sitting on this hill, not doing anything at all. He didn't mind. He had long learned a technique to put himself in stasis, allowing him to not feel the passage of time. How else was he supposed to survive? Even Demi-Dao Lords could get bored!
Just as Falak was about to enter stasis once again, a Henali guard came to call them.
"The Governor is summoning you. It is a little urgent, please make your way to him immediately," he said politely.
