Naaghai Lowlands iron & eye

to catch the crocodile's eye might have meant death before. but khusobek was now only a guardian in service to a queen, one to whom he did not know there was a blood-relation. the lowborn son of concubine and seti, unheard, unseen brother to ramesses and hatshepsuun.

"makono was indeed pharaoh, as is the regent who sent me to her holy niece. pharaoh hatshepsuun." and his eyes rested upon the man, and then he looked deliberately toward zaahira.

"we serve prince senmut and the queen." that too, the end of his words. khusobek did not ask for an introduction, but turned and strode onward, eyeing the edges of the long-trailing meadow.