Lion Head Mesa pyramid

@Satsu @Nephele @Arsenio @Sakai @Mouseberry @Jawahir @Sayf (also @Slate for ref/joining since she is present) optional!! no posting order

the gates of akashingo began when the flatlands turned from dying green to brilliant red.
it was there that ramesses sent up a call for all of the mesa. he too had gathered spoils from the vale. polished bones, the tooth of some poor animal. stacks of plant matter for the healer, wrapped in different strips of old skin.
not so profitable as he would have liked, but it did not matter. pharaoh himself paused in the open throne room, muddied with dust and stone and the red soil of the mesa. filthy. reeking of the mountains and of ursus and the saint's scent from where he and akashingo had taken what they wished.
it was satsu to whom he went first; he knew she would be there, assumed it with all of him, and searched for her eyes with a long look that blurred all else and all other beings.
"i have returned, my queen."