Lion Head Mesa khepresh

set after this thread. the murder mystery continues! tagging @Nazli & @
Zakariya for visibility! <3 anything 'ordered' in this thread can be carried out BTS if that is easier ofc, and this thread itself can be one reply or RO <3

"our queen was murdered."
@Siptah, @Ashikaga, and @Makono were gathered to his left. ramesses had called them to the top of the palace that night. 
the fellahin had carried the body of their queen up the winding red path to the top of the mesa. as had been done with maggie, satsu would be arranged beneath the dry heat of Ra's breath, wrapped in thin, soaked pelts into which @Akhtar would tuck amulets and bones and herbs. 
in seventy days' time, the cloths around her would have tightened, and her body would have become little more than bones.
but now he stared openly at the stillness of her body. satsu's face had so been contorted in death that he had ordered it covered with reverence.
"our queen was murdered," and he stared toward @Jawahir and @Kasmut, eyes searching briefly for tavina, gaze cutting to @Gucci and @Lilitu and maegi, falling toward @Sokha and @Kasmut.
he had given the meat found at the scene to his sesh. she had wrapped it in large leaves and vowed to test its surface to the extent of her abilities.
and then lastly upon @Treva, with a glint of knowing and resignation meant for his heart only to parse.
"for the next thirty days, we abstain as a palace. we grieve. let each here gather gifts and bring them to this place, that queen satsu might have her comforts and her wants fulfilled in the underworld, where she will reign beneath the eye of Osiris, and wait for me to join her."
he drew a shuddering breath and cast his stare over. "hemet," pharaoh addressed @Qiao. "carry a message to mereo. tell the roman that i call upon him to fulfill his duty of soldiers, sent here to the palace as we continue our investigation."
ramesses did not look toward his children.
he simply turned away from them all, dismissal set in the heft of his shoulders. pharaoh would remain here until the stars faded beneath sunrise.