Lion Head Mesa [m] Voice of man

long after rashepses drew from the water and was vigorously toweled by one starry-eyed servant or another, senmut remained. his body throbbed in a myriad ways; he turned his mind from the remembrance of these things.

and when he at last slunk from the wellspring, it was to lay out atop the mesa until Ra scalded him back to consciousness, to memory, to cleansing, to the golden whisper that now some aspect of divinity had been given to senmut, truly, fully.

he did not know if he should cling to this.