Lion Head Mesa to have peace, there must be strife

"long enough," senmut said, guarded with a grin. "this is the way of things. she has no brother, so she must seek outside the palace."

it was not ideal for a line yet untarnished, but her divinity would cover this in the histories told thereafter. she needed only a good and perhaps more subservient man at her side, one happy to throw himself into pleasure, leaving politics to his poised queen.

"join me for a wash in the wellspring. we will meet the queen thereafter."