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It was awful to listen to this presumption; what right did this man have to do such a thing? How could Toula permit this to transpire? This was the woman who had been present for her birth! So had Nazli, come to think of it — but Tavina had always been there for each arrival of the Divine, for even Toula's own children! How could they even consider...?

Senmut spoke of worse things still! You think they would burn all of their strongest supporters? That Toula would harm you - harm them? Aiesha? As she spoke her voice weakened, and when she spoke the name of their daughter there were warm tears in her eyes, a constriction of the throat.

Whispering now in the dark together, Nazli had to silence herself and take a deep breath. She presses her forehead in to Senmut's chest, head bowed, blotting at her eyes with the red and cream there.

I'm not ready to be parted from you again. Senmut, blinking, looking up at him now in the dark. Our family is finally together.