Ocean's Breath Plateau sun-worshipper

it was not the first time he had heard a tongue outside of common in these wilds. after all, pharaoh resided in yuelong beneath an empress who hailed from the silken lands. beneath; he hated the thought of it, would rather plague himself with other meanings of the word as they related to the sea-queen.
but it was not lust that buoyed ramesses' voice now; it was devotion. he turned his muzzle toward the arriving man, but did not halt his trajectory yet. what mortal man might call him away from the sun barge? he would not be harmed, for pharaoh himself was divine.