Lion Head Mesa just take it easy on yourself

“Pharaoh has been grieving your disappearing act, Nebet,” came the rough thrum of Semer-wati’s voice.

Bold was this coddled girl to return her face to the palace after giving not so much as a single word of warning to her escorts nor message to the palace. Her unexplained absence had sent Toula into grief, and the royal would brook no slight to the honor of his wife.

Suspicion narrowed his sun-tint eyes as they dragged crudely across her form. There were only a handful of reasons a girl would have to sneak off. “Have you allowed yourself to be spoiled?”