Naaghai Lowlands iron & eye

What Khusobek describes to her is a patriarchy. A patriarchy not unlike ones she'd heard of in tales of old — nothing quite so archaic in the modern age.
And nothing like the Akashingo she knew; the Akashingo she had come to love.
And what of female pharaoh? a better question: why was Toula herself not crowned? What if she were to bear no sons? I hardly think Akashingo would fall in that case. a hint of snark, though not in malevolence. I heard of Makono. The Queen's sister. Was she not pharaoh?
And maybe on Zaahira's part it was ignorant, but from what little she gathered of Khusobek, he came from a place of old guard. And there was one thing beloved Toula was not.
Her gaze finally falls upon their red-tipped watcher. Silent, still, with hardened eyes and heavy feet. The one who came with that Rashepses guy, she thought, if she recognized him right. And what did he care about all of this?