Lion Head Mesa house of cards

pharaoh's elegant frame froze for a moment with great indignation. satsu was not a day in her tomb and here was maegi, in jest about following suit.
he looked at her, at the flat glitter of her and the fever of her.
perhaps she was not speaking humorously. 
his voice was tight.
"marriage? why not life, maegi?" and his lazuli eyes were somehow open in this second.