[Those words, those pictures -- they were carved in with a hot knife, in his name. For three thousand years -- how many people were scarred in this way? How many endured this suffering, for the sake of Atem's memories? And, they were forbidden contact with the outside world, they lived underground? All of them? Even the children...
Mouth dry, he asks--]
Was this done under my orders? Or -- my family's?
[Is this another sin committed by the royal family of Egypt, another atrocity Atem must shoulder the burden of, must make amends for? If it is, Atem will take it on himself, it's only right, but how many more people is he going to encounter who were wronged in such terrible ways?]
no subject
Mouth dry, he asks--]
Was this done under my orders? Or -- my family's?
[Is this another sin committed by the royal family of Egypt, another atrocity Atem must shoulder the burden of, must make amends for? If it is, Atem will take it on himself, it's only right, but how many more people is he going to encounter who were wronged in such terrible ways?]