The Keftiu Woman

Aithra of Kydonia came up the river as surety for a treaty about copper. For one year she lives in the palace at Thebes: honored, fed, attended, and watched. Then, she will go home. The scribes write her name as Imila because they can't write it any other way. Khenti stands at her door from the second hour to the tenth. The treaty says she is not to be touched.

This story stands on its own in The Inner Yard. It is the second story in the Imila and Khenti universe, set in Thebes.

The Inner Yard is a romance set in a world built from late 18th Dynasty Egypt. It takes liberties.

Contents

Chapter 1-3: The Landing, The Terms, What She Did for Six Weeks

Chapter 4-6: The Snake, What Auset Saw, The Tenth Hour

Chapter 7: Afterwards

The Clause: Chapter 8-10: A Hundred and Forty-One Days, The Letter From Kydonia, What She Saw in the Counts

The Clause: Chapter 11-12: What Auset Did, The Eleven Days

Khenti

The Number