The petitioner had told her some horrifying things about the more remote passages, and the roof falls and suffocation that could have been prevented.
Pawero was sweating profusely.
“Every precaution has been taken but ...”
“I hear not every precaution has been taken, sir.”
“You have been told lies.”
“Ah, Pawero, do you not think Pharaoh with his cobra vision can see who is lying and who is not?”
The expression in her voice made him cold all over. He was shivering and sweating at the same time.
“I tell you, Pawero, no one lies to Pharaoh — and lives.”
There was a terrible silence.
“Poor Pawero,” though Senmut. He knew she meant what she said. But he himself had lied to her in those early days when he declared a love for her he had not really felt. Had she seen that he was lying? Ha
