Two Eyes Cenote sixty-fourth [ap]

the girls were silent. senmut wondered in sharp amusement if they too had been availed of the various libations this evening. "you need have no fear of me," he teased the pair. "beneath all this pomp and paint i am only a boring man, come to talk to you of your homes and what we might trade between us, between you and akashingo."

senmut hoped that would prompt their conversation, else he would cast about in vague desperation for eset or tavina to salvage things.