Two Eyes Cenote [ap] Honey, we should run away, someday.

she could not speak for a time.

khusobek appeared patient now; nazli wept wordlessly, until empty.

the mazoi spoke an answer to her problem that was so simple as he uttered it; but nazli knew better.

it must. and she knew this so strongly that her words were like iron. i cannot give him what he deserves.

nazli knew the purpose of fellahin and had been ruined by it in ways that only gilthyra knew. she saw the way senmut looked upon the woman at the banquet table and understood then how deeply jealous she was.
to be touched in that way! to be loved. to bear him sons! none of this was possible no matter how much khusobek insisted.

nazli blots the tears from her cheek and catches where they line her throat. she had said the truth out loud and oh how it stung but it was spoken, finally, and there was peace in that.