Two Eyes Cenote Portrait of a Lady

It would be seen as menial work to most, but Eset is pleased to know the fellahin find a certain level of pride and satisfaction in their work. Including Sayf, who had been keeping the halls of Akashingo long before Queen Toula found her at their threshold. It is perhaps this shared diligence that had given she and Sayf so few vacant moments to know one another. His work is undoubtedly impressive, but the man behind remains obscure. She knows little of him aside from the knowledge he was a favorite of Toula's father, Pharaoh Ramesses, and wishes now to amend it.

“How are you, Sayf?” She asks, golden eyes sweeping over his ashen face, detecting a solemn air about him.