Lion Head Mesa nineteenth

removal of organs. sprinkled in riversalt. wrapped.

left to lay like he was now for seventy days before being buried with his queen.

there is soft surprise at learning that the queen ingram had met when he'd first came to akashingo's borders had not been the first. but he does not ask. the deceased pharaoh's business was his own.

ingram had a wife, once. death had not taken her but her own restless, solitary soul. never settled. not with basilica. not with him.

what is the significance of this mummifcation? or laying here for seventy days before being buried? softly inquired, as if the patronsaint felt he might be chastised for speaking too loudly in this sacred place.