Lion Head Mesa 新月 new moon

these tags are for ref/joining! im making the assumption that all of akashingo is present for this ceremony (please PM if not okay/i miss something) <3 tagging @Charles here for visibility as he & ram still have an ongoing thread!

today was one of auspice.
ramesses stood before his throne. 
@Akhtar and @Qiao would be in attendance as aspects of the gods who would watch this rite of passage and pass their blessing upon akashingo if pharaoh performed well in their sight. 
the fellahin filed reverently behind the queen. sihaya followed and took up his place near the throne. he was shadowed by @Kasmut, favoured lotus-petal in the court of ramesses. to the right of the royal plinth stood gucci and maegi. @treva and @sokha would perhaps be upon the chamber's left, as mazoi in observation of their first esteem.
the would-be princess of brecheliant, @Lilitu; wherever she was present she would be flanked by belen, who had found an endless source of fascination in the brilliant-eyed gem. in crowfeather's absence, it seemed more and more fitting that ramesses should make her royalty himself. it would put the fenwolves into his charge at once, regardless of what they might feel about their leadership.
@sayf and @jawahir would be somewhere near the children and the queen; pharaoh did not look for them. tavina was the only one absent, though he expected her to be along directly. this was not something for which any duties save those of death could keep one — and no one was dying within akashingo. not this day.
he did not know of the secrets kept within the catacombs.
his lapis eyes settled upon satsu. in many ways she was changed; he saw the way that she held herself, and how in her aspects the children had been built as their three walked before her. but the queen's beauty was unchanged; in truth it seemed magnified, expanding in gold and silver to pale all those who entertained his desires. 
he missed her. he longed for her. he wanted her, not only the feel of satsu but her smile, her words. this was why husband and wife were kept apart in the palace of his youth: to restore and intensify the feeling of renewal.
but these hours were not for them.
the lazuli eyes flickered to his daughters. twins, copies of one another, already resplendent with their royal parentage. he approved of them as he had not when receiving first word of their birth. and siptah, his son, speaking politely to his mother.
they came to stand before them. ramesses allowed his face to warm with an inviting expression. "name our daughters for the ears of akashingo, shabti," he told aloud to satsu, indulging the moment to look upon his queen and fill his eyes with her countenance.