Lion Head Mesa shaduf [m]

Charles didn't know what 'fickle' even meant. He was hesitating to ask, but before he could get to it, he was distracted by Ramesses' next words. Tell him now? But Osiris was dead. Charles had seen it happen himself. He was gone forever. Would he return? In a different body? Was that what Ramesses was suggesting? Charles frowned and said, But he is not here. How can I ask him? And what should he ask? From context, Charles figured 'recompense' meant something like getting something back. Yet, Charles had provoked Osiris. Would it not be irrational and invoke further punishment to ask something back of a god who'd punished you for a bad thing you did? Yet a part of Charles wanted that punishment.

The touch to his ear distracted him, enticed him, turned him on, but the coywolf swallowed dryly, lost in his thoughts of Osiris, frozen in the moment; not leaning in nor resisting.