Lion Head Mesa [WP] sage

for this second act, ramesses had gathered at an eating-mat with treva and their children. there had been whispers of something to come, but he had only thought it a performance.
pharaoh was thoughtful when his daughter called for their young priest, stiffening when it was revealed: a great and almost impossible sacrifice to the Apis Bull.
pride choked him. makono vied again for her heirdom; she commanded it. he held her eyes as she his own, as the horse shrieked and died there upon the plinth and the child of nekubi satsu scintillated with the raw power of her mother.
pharaoh saw her. pharaoh heard. he raised his voice in a long, eldritch howling of open delight and praise to the god, to akashingo, to makono herself.