[ Her fingers continue to stroke against his shard, idle and open, accepting of the edges and planes, accepting of the parts that are sharp, considered dangerous and undesirable. Those things that make them as Meridian to be other, but she does not touch it with hesitation, but instead she touches his shard like it is precious, hesitant only because she does not wish to snap the pieces of it it. She does not fear cutting her hand.

Her shard, in contrast, is heart shaped, and smooth garnet, a veneer that belies the deep, darkness at the heart of it, spiraling outward and into bright red planes and shifting patterns within. She is dangerous, but she is hidden. Where Set is bold, and outright in his villainy, Akua is seen as soft, almost kind. She has worked hard, to deceive those who need deceiving, or allies that may turn them away otherwise. She is the soft guide, the advisor to Set's godhood, a woman who would trick or sneak to find their goals.

She does not need to be hated -- but she would be, and has no issue with it -- but she will do what she can to support him, her fingers allude to, when she touches his shard. ]

I am unsurprised that they are involved in something even more than that. That they indulge in the first is unsurprising in the first, but...

Do we know what they are involved in? What could they be getting from such a... device?