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“She is not foolish. She is beloved by her people. She makes moves to expand her kingdom. She has ideas and she acts on them.” Rashepses had ideas, too. And he bored of bedding feather-minded women of the court. He wanted challenge. He wanted her. And he would do what must be done to win her.

To Siatum he did look. His ally, one of his great loves. If he could find a similar companionship in her like the one he shared with the princeguard then he would know happiness here, away from his river.

“Let us face the macedonians when they come,” he laughed, but the prince would not be so easily defeated once his mind had a mark and his bow was raised. “Together.”