Two Eyes Cenote spur & point

"i have known many queens but only one pharaoh," was the crocodile's idle rejoinder. "he is that way because he is arrogant, because he has not seen her, because surely he knows the palace bows only for a lineage not his own."

"mark me, jodai," and here khusobek's ears flicked with interest, a genuine wry approval in his eyes, "do not discount the charisma of a new man. i watched him command senmut's lover and caress her openly," he exaggerated, though a good deal of it was indeed true.