Arrow Lake one breath, it'll just break

He spoke—her steps giving pause as she looked to him. He seemed to collect himself from something—his anger? But when he addressed her next, she found herself blinking in confusion—

—until she realized this had nothing to do with their last conversation here. The day she had tried to pry more from him… and received the closed off soldier.

His gaze met hers. Her conversation with Tamar replayed in her mind over and over again—a soundtrack in repeat the moment it had happened. But never before had Germanicus been voiced as knowing anything. 

It almost seems to me like you might know more than I do on the matter, Imperator. Yet it made no sense to her—why would Mereo be so closely allied to Akashingo? 

Especially with the implication that he had known Tamar and Arsenio had tried to remain hidden from the Pharaoh.