Two Eyes Cenote netsedjer

a servant came and brought a small bolt of furs, something from their own room, as a gift which was placed across nazli's shoulders. as the woman shrugged in to it she felt the weight of the servant's admiration and felt her own face redden further; and when she murmured thanks, the servant slipped away again to other work.

nazli peered again to senmut, watching him with great care.
it felt like she had missed so much; the many firsts of their daughter being chief among them, but also changes within muat-riya, or the palace — the birth of divine children! how could she dare sleep through that? oh! she was terrible.

she waits for senmut's prayer to end, and reaching for the comfort of his presence, says, first priest, then erpa-ha, now father. she wonders if he is happy.