Two Eyes Cenote sixty-fourth [ap]

"many goods and many gods. a portion of these riches are given to each of their altars. we have not forgotten who ordained divinity in our leaders."

ken. sialuk. senmut would remember this word and this name. "these minerals intrigue me. the herbs would please our physicians. tell me, must you enter the mountain to find either?" such an excursion could be an opportunity for noblemen alike.

marriage. "i myself am unmarried, as are two of our nobles. in the year to come, i expect more children to be born in both palaces. it is the royal way to make such matches in infancy and then speak nothing of them for two years." was he jesting? perhaps. "as hereditary prince, my marriage is the business of pharaoh." his heart constricted. "it means if she ordains me to marry outside our land for the purposes of alliance, i am her willing servant in all things."