Lion Head Mesa eleventh

senmut rushed to help her as much as he would be allowed. "the princess is now the crown prince," he murmured after drawing nazli aside into a little alcove off the hallway.

his gaze was once more zealous. "they had a meeting about it, with akhtar and i and pharaoh, and prince siptah. and her."

he was awestruck by makono and yet it was more easily to nazli that senmut could speak, perhaps by way of her being a fellahin and he having been borne of them; the same dirt was under their nails, as his father might have said. and so the words tumbled out of him. 

"i do not know if she is leaving. all i know is that prince siptah left in the night, disappeared. and now she is crown prince. so now she has those duties. and i — you went with her before, did you not?"