Lion Head Mesa Two Auguries

she bowed, the first to heed him like this, the first to see him as such, and senmut knew at once that he must place eset in a high role, one that was beyond the dismissal of his post, should he lose it, and the high priesthood as well to a smoother soothsayer.

"i will be your pharaoh if your queen decrees it, eset," senmut said, proverbial hands wavering over the surface of that circlet and then falling to his sides.

eagerness did not make a king. humility had made him a prince.

and senmut remained humble through his observation of divinity's want.