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in the storeroom had been a compelling blend of honey and berries, left to turn in the cool darkness. pharaoh had plied him with more and more of it. the fermentation compounded within his head. maggie was laughing alongside him, offering meat to settle his stomach.

pharaoh's face cut in and out of shadow. 

germanicus ate the fruit again and this time it flushed him with a great and heady warmth. he heard his own laughter rising among their own, and staggered into the pool after the lithe hips of the harlot.

pharaoh was singing a bawdy and familiar song. germanicus felt that he had lost control of himself. 

he looked about for crowfeather but the shadow was not there. maggie was, however, and she ducked closer to kiss him. she offered the same to pharaoh and then again, giggling, came to germanicus again.

it was not something he would have tolerated were he not himself.

"now to feast," pharaoh declared, and pulled himself from the water. he was only slightly slurred. 

they moved now, to discover crowfeather and satsu in their sedate speaking. maggie did not leave his side. 

the eagle would remain undone long into the night until she spirited him away.