Lion Head Mesa waking dream

The most lovely of Toula was her heart, which needed no emphasis. Neither did any part of her physicality. If the Princes weren’t in love with her already they would all be fully by the time she made her striking debut in the South.

Eset settles herself beside Inji and looks into Toula’s natural beauty. “Yes,” she seconds the fellahin’s idea, “The Eye of Ra.” The symbol that would subdue enemies that covet her power.

“And a barest brush of malachite above the lid,” she muses, envisioning how all eyes would be bound to her.