Yahmose's voice was Low and grumbling in tone, it expressed doubt and anxiety.

"The Lord Ruler never let skaa have coins either," another voice grumbled.

"This had better be good," a sleepy voice grumbled.

A different male voice grumbled something in an eastern tongue.

Suddenly the old voices were grumbling again, tossing up all the old warnings.

Their voices grumbled like the growling of old predators.

'If I've said that once, I've said it a million times,' the voice grumbled in a lower and more normal tone.

"Until some ten-year-old hacker figures a way around the instructions," a voice grumbled.

"Leave my ol' lady be," a man's voice grumbled from the dark.