Two Eyes Cenote [BOO] 呪われた女王 // Aoimoku

the girl is happy.

satsu sees the way the two look at one-another. how joyous the people are. how even the fellahin see her as beloved.

her husband's words ring true. the dead queen says nothing for a time;
time that they do not have.

then,
i cannot take this place any longer, ramesses. it is too much the same, and too different; i see us in them. her gaze lingers upon his now, sad and soft but without anger.
i beg of the gods to let me go, and they do not hear me. i want to walk the redstone of akashingo; i want to swim the wellspring; i want hours of ecstacy with you. it could not be. her eyes find toula again, dancing, feasting, laughing.
barring that, to be alive and close to your blood. to carry it as i once carried our children. what she spoke of was life, repeated.
satsu watched the dim light of her curse seeding deep within toula, and the deeper it went the more calm and affable the queen became. perhaps the gods would permit her this.