Two Eyes Cenote stars, aligning

Toula stared openly at him, a gaze hungry and yearning and full of much wonder. this proximity was all at once too much and yet not enough. to move toward it, or to run away? but it was to be shared, and so she might have moved nearer—
but his next words tempered her, some. yes, Pharaoh—she remembers herself, remembers… 
I wish for you to preside over this ceremony, love, he said, she would love many. and already she knew it to be true. as she looked upon him, she knew what it was in her heart for him. 
unrequited. and now, Nazli has returned. there should be happiness in her heart for him. and she felt that there was—that he might at last find his own happiness, his own love. that thought, in truth, did make her smile. Nazli is returned. all the things we have wished for her—her freedom, her choice in who she might someday marry… they are hers, and she wondered if now he might set his sights upon her.
she did not want to set him free. but she knew that she must—that he, too, must now know she empowered him and provided him with his own.