An attentive Anon called me out and said: “At the bone temple you was mad at the priestess for the skull staff, but on your twitter you was whining about not having skulls of your own. Jealous, sour grapes, or hypocrite?”
None of the above. The skulls in the bone temple were not inert decoration. These were the embodiment of the dead. Not trinkets or trophies to be hoarded and displayed. Each skull in there belonged to someone that was now unable to move on completely. They would always have a piece of themselves bound there. The Boneyard is not purgatory nor prison.
And how the flying fuck did she get a raven skull there, I have no fucking idea! Okay, maybe I do. Maybe when humans walked closer with the spirits, such an item was given to a human as token. But the cult(ure) did as humans are wont to do, and the original reason was lost. And now only the bastardized practices that I saw remain. But because of the original agreement, the ravens can’t kick the ‘descendants’ out the Boneyard. Maybe each person has to make that choice themselves. Maybe I’m speculating far too much, and with a very tired mind at that.
Whatever skull I get here in the Waking will be inert and symbolic. Certainly not the real thing, as both have a metric shit-tonne of laws protecting them from unscrupulous folk. I could have a pallet of replica skulls, and not have the soul-weight that a tooth fragment from the Boneyard would carry.