The messenger from the Hittites comes to the palace to ask for audience with the king. The king wants to reward him for his loyalty. He wants to give him a wife. He also wants to make him a new wife. Since he has no other choice, he wants to have a concubine. He tells the king that his only wife is not his wife, but his only love is cho, the enemy of public opinion. He says that if he passes her over to his best general, he will be shamed. The messengers from the hittites have signed a peace treaty with Egypt, but they also specialize in brute force. They are messengers from Hittite, mumucha, and tarly. Their leader is not a foreign messenger, but like a military man. He looks different from the Egyptian king. He is not like the king, but more like an army man. It is clear that the king is suspicious of him. The messenger gives the king a gift: a box with a hidden weapon.