Lion Head Mesa ascendant

senmut had been with nazli before the dawn, and he had not seen the princess and her father leave the palace. suppose he had! then he could have stopped her. 

the young we'eb followed the high priest in a timid silence. pharaoh was angrier than he had ever seen the man, and akhtar stood rooted in the same royal fire.

senmut slunk to the left hand of his master and sat straightbacked, ready to record as scribe.

he looked toward no one in the room, but his heart raced with the rightness of it all.