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the queen gave no answer for this moment and he had not expected one. her inner face was not for senmut to know, though he deeply loathed that she had no vizier. 

or perhaps she had found this in her women, for she had found all manner of joy in their devotion to her and they in her resplendence. 

"brother and sister marry to create an heir with a claim that is strongest to pharaoh. there is not yet precedence for this, but it does not mean there cannot be, divine one."

it may come to pass that by using a prince as consort for them both, their children might be royal and the throne kept between them for many years.

but senmut wished to know now what was behind those splendid eyes which revealed nothing now.