They're talking about the end of a tomb's trap-run, ostensibly; the goal at the end of obstacles, the game's victory conditions. But something about the way Bakura's skin flushes makes Atem think that's not all they're talking about.
Funny Bakura should bring up the end at this particular festival, where everyone remembers the dead, lending power to the people they've lost to the afterlife by saying their names and leaving offerings. They know, don't they, precisely what the end looks like? Even if she hasn't seen it, Atem has known what it will look like all her life.
And she knows what it'll look like getting there, doesn't she? She'll run the temple as gods-wife, until she marries someone and becomes his principal wife -- not the only one, but the one with greatest status, thanks to her birth as princess -- unless, of course, she's too old by the time her father dies and passes the throne on. Either way, she'll get a tomb, her last rites will be performed, and her name will join the others that get recited under the summer's new moon.
Bakura's end won't be that different, right? She'll get permission to have a tomb, Atem will see to that, and on it it'll have pictures of all of her adventures, and among her other titles and epithets, it'll say beloved of Ankhsunatem, great royal wife of Pharaoh Whatshisname.
So.....
....what's Bakura on about, here?]
Don't I know what it looks like?
....
What do you expect is waiting for you, at the end of the game you're playing now?
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They're talking about the end of a tomb's trap-run, ostensibly; the goal at the end of obstacles, the game's victory conditions. But something about the way Bakura's skin flushes makes Atem think that's not all they're talking about.
Funny Bakura should bring up the end at this particular festival, where everyone remembers the dead, lending power to the people they've lost to the afterlife by saying their names and leaving offerings. They know, don't they, precisely what the end looks like? Even if she hasn't seen it, Atem has known what it will look like all her life.
And she knows what it'll look like getting there, doesn't she? She'll run the temple as gods-wife, until she marries someone and becomes his principal wife -- not the only one, but the one with greatest status, thanks to her birth as princess -- unless, of course, she's too old by the time her father dies and passes the throne on. Either way, she'll get a tomb, her last rites will be performed, and her name will join the others that get recited under the summer's new moon.
Bakura's end won't be that different, right? She'll get permission to have a tomb, Atem will see to that, and on it it'll have pictures of all of her adventures, and among her other titles and epithets, it'll say beloved of Ankhsunatem, great royal wife of Pharaoh Whatshisname.
So.....
....what's Bakura on about, here?]
Don't I know what it looks like?
....
What do you expect is waiting for you, at the end of the game you're playing now?