Two Eyes Cenote ninety-sixth

he started to hide a smile, then did not. "such honesty of spirit has that effect. we will eat. if you want to drink after, we will take cups when we take the air in the places overlooking the cenote. i go there to pray."

he could go there to speak further with a man who had broken down his defenses and expressed truthfully in his heart.

a moment.

a quiet.

his eyes flickered as he fixed them to those of akavir.

"i believe germanicus died by poison." he had no way to be sure, but he knew who had brought it for ramesses; ramesses, and let that secret die with senmut and be buried in his tomb of rock.

"i believe his wife supplied it."

he had never uttered a word of this theory to anyone else; now his heart beat hard, sickening, in his slender chest.