"How about it, Xolotl? Have you thought it through? If you can't make up your mind right away, you can wait until the next ministers' council..."
"Teacher, let Cuauhtemoc be betrothed to Light Snake. The two of them are about the same age and can grow up together, just like Alisa and me... Also, I want to take Cuauhtemoc as my student, and teach him personally, just as you once taught me..."
"Oh? You choose Cuauhtemoc? You want to become his teacher?... Mm, good! That will do!... With the ancestors as witness, I will inform the royal elders and report to the ancestors of the Divine Tree. Then we will choose an auspicious day and have the High Priest Council hold a blessing ceremony, thus settling this sacred marriage contract, and also have him perform the rites of taking you as his teacher!..."
The sun slanted west, casting down golden light, dyeing even the plain King's Palace with a layer of flowing radiance. Avet and Xolotl sat facing each other, one smiling gently, the other respectfully lowering his head, like a teacher and student suffused with warmth.
"Good! Report to the ancestors, and also report to the Main God!... May the ancestors bless us! Let Cuauhtemoc and Light Snake rule the Totonac Coastal Alliance for our divinely protected Mexica royal house!..."
In a few short words, the two smiling Mexica kings agreed on their children's sacred marriage contract, and even fixed the teacher-student bond between Cuauhtemoc and Xolotl. Although the two kings were both uncle and nephew, and father-in-law and son-in-law, according to the traditions of the Mexica royal house, royal intermarriage in which children crossed up a generation was not only extremely common, but also all the more sacred.
And the greatest political significance of establishing this royal marriage