Enit’s royal garden was quite a sight to see. Rare desert flowers had been carefully cultivated over the generations, and their bright colors were in vivid contrast to the stark tan and brown of the walls of Queen Kaliendra’s palace. Narrow dirt paths separated different beds of different flowers, with the occasional tree planted along it. Sed the Elder sat in the shade of one of these trees, lost in an unnavigable labyrinth of thought. A Tokaya, his blue-green coloration made him blend in surprisingly well with the shadow cast by the tree he now sat back against. Though the royal gardens were in the heart of Enit, Sed’s mind wandered outside the city limits, to a plateau overlooking the town. It had been there that he had dueled general Kepi of the Ahkis clan, and against all odds, had wo