Northstar Vale Yioí

"your father has done more to keep us safe than you know."

iron lanced through the shadowed places of each word. tamar's eyes pierced her son. "we do not move so suddenly, antigone. we speak. we hear. we listen."

"you say reyson struck you. but zosime saw. and she did not say that this was so. i believe you fought. i want to know how far it went. now. you will tell me all of it now."

the flat blink of her son's eyes reminded her of ramesses' serpentine gaze, poised to strike.