Redsand Canyon invalesco

"i am agreeable." but he was not. qiao had approached him as one who would conspire against the pharaoh. he did not care for the plot when she fairly reeked of that throne room. her assumed threat had commanded one of its own. mereo did not suffer spies. 

germanicus had looked levelly back at qiao, ignoring her accusation. it was not a lack of concern for ruenna, only his refusal to show weakness. and he did not care for the idea of his wife going off with the pharaoh's chosen. but he could not trail her as if he she were a child. all eyes in mereo would be upon their newcomer.

he nodded toward them and would stand with a soldier's stiff bearing, watchful until they had gone on. 

and then he would find arsenio again and set the red mercenary to be on his own watchfulness.