Lion Head Mesa seventeenth

referencing box's characters, which u can remove <3

senmut did not even think of it! he tumbled into the richness of the pharaoh's bed and almost slept then as his head landed near her own upon the coverlet.

"i questioned bayek's loyalty. i told him to stand as your guard. he will do your bidding, but he will not raise his hand against your sisters or brother."

eyes closed, repeating the events of the day.

"qiao, nala, and i embalmed him today. he lies in state beneath the eye of Ra."

"anaelle follows the former queen. she was her counsellor. bahiti has — they were a gift and they have returned to their people. akhtar —" and this was the hardest of all, "akhtar has gone. a scorpion sting opened his mind to a dream. perhaps he will return."

to lose so many in a day, but to whet the loyalty of those who stayed. the vacuum of a high priest lurked in the palace like a pulsing sore.

he exhaled. 

and then the meeting they had attended together, a roman soldier come to live among them

scarcely a day she had been pharaoh. "what of your own hours, divine one?"