- [<] Status Log - created:: 2022-05-06 - status-updated:: 2022-05-06 - afterword:: [[2022.06.22a royal protection of foreigners]] - [i] I'm not sure what kind of analysis I could do for this that isn't covered under [[2022.01.26a broken heart syndrome and human sacrifice customs]] unless it's to discuss the role of fire in human death customs (pyres / witch burning). Look into "foreigners under the protection of the prince." ```poem Suppose you've found yourself Under the protection of a conqueror, foreign-born Right at a time when you most desire freedom for the women of the world — I must warn: Vanity aside, the irony will burn Into the dawn of heathen days and past the Veil of death, yet A widow as cursed as I for living still surely knows Lingering past the death of love is sacrifice as surely as embracing the wind's flame breath ```