Lion Head Mesa eleventh

A harried sigh. She doesn't know how things work, only that she does as she is told, and for once Nazli feels a certain resentment for her station. Nobody had told her! Why keep this a secret? It looked badly upon the royals, in a way, but it made Makono look all the more strengthened; her ritual, her defiance towards her father, and now this - !

And the mazoi - none have been sent to find him? She needs not to ask this, as she has seen them in their courtyard doing their drills and throughout the palace, minding the visitors. And to go during the festivities!

Her sharp voice falters.