It was necessary for him to exert himself and know love, taking to his side a certain lady called Amherefti, who had been his mistress, and without permission or public ceremony, in secret and by ancient rite, in the pavilion in the garden, he made her his wife.
It was necessary that Azdegerd, son of Ptaneoc, become king for a short while, then die without issue, so that, at last, silently in the night, the eunuchs came to awaken Tsamais where he slept in the garden beside Amherefti and placed crowns on both of them and proclaimed them King and Queen of the Delta and (by implication, though not in actuality) of Riverland all the way up to the black mountains where the River is born in unmapped gorges, where eagles and winged gods soar above the spray of the waterfalls.
And it was necessa
