Luneshale Pass Night poem

“Oh,” she breathes, conspicuous is the shock in her eyes before she has the opportunity to mask it, “will they marry?”

Nazli, the girl who was once fellahin, now risen to sesh, and who Eset knows only from glimpses in passing and the whispers in the servant corridors she’d learned to take a discriminating ear to... and how Senmut had hesitated-

In the revelation, Toula’s face is searched for underlying hurt- or acceptance. Her Queen would never be made to stand in the way of love- but there was a gentleness there, between Queen and Prince.

“How do you feel about this, Divine One?” Her ask is gentle, resuming a stroke, sisterly, to the edge of a flaxen temple. For it is possible, too, that she'd come to develop feelings for the Erpa-ha, in the span of their courtship.