Geb put his arm around my shoulders and pulled me to him. I leaned against his shoulder, grateful to have his support. Not that there wasn"t more of it coming from gods and goddesses all the time. Other than Thoth and Taweret, none of them offered to help us directly, but I kept returning to my rooms and finding gifts for either me or the babies. They wouldn"t be doing that if they didn"t want to support me.
"We don"t have to witness this," he whispered to me.
I sighed loudly. "We do, and you know it. We can"t ask either of them to risk themselves for us if we aren"t even willing to watch it happen."
He nodded, and the two of us lapsed back into silence as we waited for Thoth and Khonsu to arrive. I wasn"t sure how much the moon god had agreed to already, but I doubted he was going to s
