When Areda was arrayed in her personal receiving room, six Cynis eunuchs entered, two setting down a heavy chest, four baring a gauze-curtained palanquin that they deftly settled onto the floor before her before prostrating themselves respectfully and parading out.<br/><br/>Through the gauze, she could see a nude feminine figure, full of breast and hip, gracefuly pressing her hands to the silk at the floor the palanquin and her face into her hands to await her mistress's first sight of her and--if given permission--her first sight of her mistress.