Lion Head Mesa thirty-eighth

bold! bold! senmut at last grinned a boyish and genuine smile. "i am at her command. if she finds no proper suitor, then i will be her choice. she may yet choose to be pharaoh as her sister did, however. i am content to be moved upon her senet board."

naberius wished to be married, it seemed, and senmut mentally scrolled through the list of possibilities. it would take a priestess from her work, unless the man made a political marriage for the benefit of akashingo, taking a foreigner as wife instead.

in this, naberius too enjoyed more freedom than toula. senmut wondered if the man accompanying him today had any designs upon the role of pharaoh.