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The Nereides. Hatshepsut was displeased to find she knew nothing of them, after a moment of reaching through her mind's recesses. The Greeks were suited for the sea, the Egyptian thought wryly unto herself, though not unkindly — she merely recognized that she herself was not.

“Πότε οι Νηρηίδες εγκατασταθούν εδώ?” she asked after a pause, intending to glean as much information from this man as he was willing to give. It was, after all, what Hatshepsut had spent her life pursuing: knowledge.

It was posed more firmly than before, and rephrased; she sought an answer, one the Greek had not yet granted unto her. Shrewdly, she watched him.

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