Two Eyes Cenote the fields of elation

someone would aid the newborn, but it was not nazli. the struggles of that little body went unseen by the new mother. her sleep went unending; this deep, bone-weary sleep of a body poorly equipped for all of the rigors that came before.

senmut was alone now with his new responsibility while inside his lover (one of many) there was a war being raged, the likes of which tavina's medicine could not touch, and senmut's love could not permeate.

was this the true trade of the secretive heka? her wish granted - to be mother - but in payment, this weakness? this sleep that brought her to the border of the Reeds?