Lion Head Mesa ninth

a gravid silence followed, in which senmut did not dare to look at the princess. she was pensive; she seemed a thousand miles away, heavy with thoughts which belonged to her only by way of her status.

and her chambers were indeed silent.

"i — did not think you would begrudge her the sleep, great one. she was almost dead upon her feet." he wondered, not idly, but in a rush, what akhtar would do when he discovered the servant there.