Lion Head Mesa The lights are on, but the royals aren’t home

quietly, between bites, senmut informed the lady of the happenings in muat-riya; of the green-leaf peddlers and the brutality exacted by muat-riya on one of them captured. and how that had been returned against a child, maimed now.

his appetite left him. senmut sighed. "the trials of a kingdom are this, to field endless attacks. to see blood shed. we must strike back even more harshly, lest we be sieged."