Two Eyes Cenote [m] Adder

“Then there is another innocent to consider,” her eyes hold steadily over Machiavelli’s exasperating face. These are tedious and exhausting maneuvers, the hebsut’s own tactics thus far only ever kept to a senet board. But Khusobek had served a court before Toula's, his was the mind of a strategist.

“I suggest you rest here. I will find a way to placate Eira for the time being. Bathe, eat. Keep yourself to this room except under nightfall. You must not be seen as a free man by her eyes,” She rises then, instinctively reaching to dust her own coat when she is reminded of how soiled she is.

“I must go inform the mazoi.” But first she would find the mother and rinse herself.