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she was quiet even still. his words, his lack of ambition, his desire to never betray her—and while she saw that this marriage could give him much, and his children much more… her heart rallied against the idea. 
I will think on this, because with this awareness came something else, and she needed the night to think on it. her own marriage, perhaps, might need to be swifter for this—
but she considered Rashepses, and Thutmose, and Senmut even still. perhaps now Senmut most of all. the other princes might make the same sacrifice, but certainly not for the reason she knew Senmut then did. 
she breathes a little easier. I do not wish to force marriage upon her, she murmured, but then… brother and sister marry—what if two sisters did? in a way that… would not make her Pharaoh, but perhaps if one Pharaoh failed, then… then she might have her chance, then there would be no blood at all upon the floors of Akashingo. 
Toula also did not think to make her Queen yet—not before knowing her heart for certain! but her heart sang at the idea of keeping Ashikaga, for a lifetime—as a friend, as an ally, as a sister perhaps called wife. 
she was no tactician, not like Makono—but she would try to do what she could, try to think out all of the options that were feasible and best. for Akashingo.