Two Eyes Cenote no, no, it's rightfully mine.

posting order i think is: riot - medusa - eset - machiavelli - safiya - khusobek

patrol had taken him from the palace following safiya's coronation. golden coyotes, a trio of them, had haunted the borders. handled was the situation, but he knew nothing of kheti's transgress against his sister, nor the alliance of brother and tiye against safiya.


he knew only the pounding step of his daughter, the flash of machiavelli's fur in the opposite corridors. safiya struck; her father assessed. "subdue the hemet," he ordered of his child. she would pass it to the fellahin. khusobek remained a guards-captain even in his immediate failure to secure. if the pale woman favored her life, she would submit at once.

but why did eset grab for medusa? blood hung to tinge the air; he cast a glance at the wellspring and the crumpled child before he moved to intercept the hebsut himself, his body a hopeful bulwark between she and the efforts of his order. a shout rang from his throat for @Meseba: guard the gate.

once eset had bled. now medusa reeked of the same scent, and he wondered with a man's mind if some madness had crawled into them both. "hebsut, eset! let us look at the boy together, please,"