King Elk Forest the inundation

As she had suspected, the man does not speak, and this is appealing in some strange fashion to Hatshepsut. She is a royal, and therefore used to those beneath her speaking first. But this is not Karnak, and the man before her is no such inferior. The woman must remove herself from the past.

"Is this your forest?" she inquires in her clipped and elegant tone, perhaps tinged with inadvertent pretentiousness at its edges. Yet perhaps it is also deliberate, given her haughty air and searching gaze.