Grouse Thicket [m] four because i always come prepared

He acquiesced, and Diantha found a smile. She thought of the former pharaoh during the height of their act.

...

Again, he insisted that she eat. Her stomach grumbled, and she ate not because he told her to, but because it had been more than a day since her last meal. The meat was cold and strange, much unlike the lavish food she had been given in Akashingo, but she wolfed it down all the same. She had lived on far less for far longer.

When she had finished, she licked her lips and studied the strange, ugly man. He might have been pretty once upon a time, but it was long ago.