Lion Head Mesa the darkest side of me

"no. my intentions do not matter, so what power might i have to concoct a scheme where servants are broken? what would shattered minds do for us that we have not already done without them? you continue to speak very far against pharaoh, akavir, against who she is because of what you have seen."

now he too stood, watching them both with only the sparest veil over his indignant disgust. "bring belen back," he ordered of a fellahin who crept just inside the room. "tell her to gather first what things she owns."

akavir would see. he did not understand what belen was or in what realm she lived.

senmut fell into a prevailing silence.