Lion Head Mesa so intoxicated with the end

the Amiirad smiled at his agreement.
and then, suddenly, she asked him in a quiet breath, would you perhaps... read your bones with me? for she wanted to respect his own culture, his own roots—and she felt that Osiris might speak to him, through him...
the dead visited once they passed, before they were entombed. it was why she herself visited so often the mourning place of Ramessess. Ingram might very well have heard her wailing; in a time of mourning, expressing ones grief was important.
sometimes there were those hired for such things! but (perhaps thanks to Toula) there had been no need. 
perhaps... perhaps her father would speak to her through these trinkets, tools not merely of the void, Toula did not think—but a bridge between worlds!