Redsand Canyon eagle

her voice faltered around his language but she prevailed.

for a long minute germanicus said nothing. but his eyes were upon the young face. by all rights she should know none of this. she should be a child, playing with her siblings! makono should still be singing songs with her sisters.

had she ever been so young? had she been born with knowledge?

"tu vis patris tui praecepta derumpere?"

the eagle was direct. had makono come here to seek the beginnings of treason? such things were natural for an heir which must wait for her father to die before she assumed the throne.