I can't live without you

and-in-hand Itzel and Cocum walked into the city’s center temple, the temple of Knich Ahau, together. She looked at the elegant stonework depicting the Sun God instead of looking at Waterlily-Jaguar, the leader of Copan. People were still arriving and he was standing on the temple steps that only priests and leaders could touch, waiting for everyone to arrive. If someone had dropped a pin, you would’ve heard it, and all its echoes. Nobody spoke, people hardly even dared to breath.
Itzel looked up at Cocum, and while it brought her great joy be with him, holding hands, none of her worries went away. She silently wished she and him were somewhere else, anywhere else.
“It brings me great sorrow to know one of our citizens will be leaving us, but I will rejoice in the fact that another one is going to feast with the Gods, tomorrow! And this person’s friends and family should also rejoice that this person will bring us good fortune for another year!” Waterliy-Jaguar’s commanding voice boom