Lion Head Mesa royal falcon flown unto the sun

optional pack activity, one post encouraged, this is the burial of ramesses <3 tagging @Naberius also for visibility since hes got a joining thread

the day of internment dawned dark with rain.

it turned the red sands outside akashingo to the hue of freshly spilled blood; it drenched the mesa itself and thunder transformed the morning into a downpour. 

the hemet-nekheb toula, he meant for her to walk at the head of this column leading from the mesa. the body of pharaoh would be drawn by the fellahin upon a low sledge of skins, @Tuna leading as chosen of the queen.

qiao was not among them.

behind toula and her retinue would come medusa and @Akhtar, who senmut had asked to sing the burial hymns of Osiris as they walked.

@Gucci, @Melody and tavina would bring up the rear, along with the guests @Harakhte and @Akhendes, who had been invited along with the prince's own court to attend this auspicious and somber event.

he himself, senmut, walked before all of them, calling out the titles of ramesses as akashingo proceeded to the tomb that the royal son siptah had seen built before his departure.

"here is Userma’atre’setepenre, Keeper of Harmony and Balance, Strong in Right, Elect of Ra. here is Ozymandias, Lord of the Red Land, Pharaoh of Akashingo." the procession had come to the stones of the great work, and here he helped toula step along the heavy stones. bidding bayek to roll back the weighty cover.

there was a scrape, and then the smell of sweet rot filled the air. senmut did not blink. he motioned the fellahin closer, and in some moments the mummified and skin-wrapped body of ramesses was laid beside satsu, the husk of maggie still curled at their feet, eternal servant to pharaoh and his deepest love.

"let him now go to join Royal and Divine Wife nekubi satsu, known in life as Sobekneferu, Chosen of the Red Sands."

it was done.

senmut looked to the young queen of the mesa now, welcoming her words with his green eyes.