King And Goddess
“She was in a fair rage. And she could indulge the barest fraction of it.
“This will be kept quiet,” she said through clenched teeth.
“And you, O my scribe, will stand surety for it.”
Senenmut bowed low. There was nothing of the lover in her now, and no remembrance of their nights together. She was queen wholly, and queen in wrath.
What she said to Neferure he did not know. They spoke alone together in a chamber bare of listening places, with Nehsi on guard at the door. They spoke long; and when... Neferure came out she was white and shaken, too shocked for tears.
There would be no pilgrimage. But this far Hatshepsut granted the wisdom of Neferure’s stratagem: she allowed the queen to announce that, in sickness of the spirit, she would retreat for a time to the temple of Isis in Abydos. It was far enough from Thebes to be out of the court’s sphere, high and holy enough to suit a queen, and well enough guarded that Neferure’s secret might be safe there. There was no surety; but of this both Hatshepsut and Senenmut were certain.MoreLess
“This will be kept quiet,” she said through clenched teeth.
“And you, O my scribe, will stand surety for it.”
Senenmut bowed low. There was nothing of the lover in her now, and no remembrance of their nights together. She was queen wholly, and queen in wrath.
What she said to Neferure he did not know. They spoke alone together in a chamber bare of listening places, with Nehsi on guard at the door. They spoke long; and when... Neferure came out she was white and shaken, too shocked for tears.
There would be no pilgrimage. But this far Hatshepsut granted the wisdom of Neferure’s stratagem: she allowed the queen to announce that, in sickness of the spirit, she would retreat for a time to the temple of Isis in Abydos. It was far enough from Thebes to be out of the court’s sphere, high and holy enough to suit a queen, and well enough guarded that Neferure’s secret might be safe there. There was no surety; but of this both Hatshepsut and Senenmut were certain.MoreLess
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