Step 1
The Decision
You are Inanna, Queen of Heaven, and your ear is turned toward the Great Below. Your sister **Ereshkigal** rules there, in the land of no return. The reason you give your sukkal, **Ninshubur**, is half true: a funeral, a curiosity, a claim on a second throne.
You know the rules. No one comes back from Kur unchanged. Ninshubur already looks as if she is memorizing your face.
"If I do not return," you say, "raise a lament. Go to Enlil, to Nanna, to Enki. Do not let me rot on a hook."