Hideaway Strath linen

for once, he listened. a pallor of memory; mother's word transitioning to a rein upon the girl's future. separated by gender, and soon by rank, pharaoh imagined. a world not so different than his own, though he saw it now from a new side.
the water licked around his ivoried figure again. the fragrance of the cuttings held pleasantly in the fetid air. 
"it is intriguing to see what one might do to honor their family. i became a captain in my father's guard. but i am no soldier."
a stirring of his tail against the shallows; ramesses was sodden, heavy. "will you dance to honor our divine ones?" he grinned, a teasing light rising in his lazuli gaze.