Lion Head Mesa Learn to Be Lonely

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doing her best to return to the palace unnoticed was, in a word, impossible.

no sooner had satsu slunk beneath the redstone obelisk did @Tamar find her; frenzied and disheveled, and wanting only to pull the ascendant aside to speak hastily with her, in that frazzled-yet-demure manner that the fellahin carried always.

sighing inwardly, satsu led the girl towards the wellspring but it was there that ramesses was being entertained, and so they made haste away from there; towards the throne room which, so far as the girl knew, was empty.

as they moved to usher the fellahin to these sacred quarters satsu's focus was entirely upon them, speaking in a low voice, conspiratorially: you have done what i have asked then? tell me —oh!

here there was a man!
satsu's demeanor changed immediately, her posture rising.
what are you doing in here? perhaps this was part of some game that her fiancée played? was this man another fellahin or something other?