Naaghai Lowlands fiftieth

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Senmut.

Melody had run to be away from him, away from the whispered truth through the halls of Akashingo that he had taken notice of another. It had been a betrayal, in a way; in Pharaoh's absence, was he not their ruler? Oh, Toula was their Queen, but Melody saw the truth of it in her bearing, and in Senmut's. He ruled, as Makono once had.

And Melody would have given him what she had given Makono. She could have! She'd needed it, once, but no more.

Her eyes were solemn as the Erpa-ha addressed her. She shook her head. No, Melody admitted, voice low. But they found me out there, under the stars. I almost died. She paused. I've been recovering here. I started - well, I started a map. Of the stars. It was far from finished, but here Melody stopped herself, uncertain how Senmut would receive this. It was foolish and presumptuous of her, surely, to think she could do what he had done, and yet —