**Twenty years or so before the start of World War II**
"Vex Paradox! You are to report to my office immediately." I heard Mistress's voice call from hundreds of miles away. I was in Germany visiting a very close friend of mine, and Mistress was in Egypt. Unfortunately for me, I had a spiritual bond with her.
Back in Ancient Egypt, where Mistress and her twin sister Priestess are from, we had sort of placed ownership over each other's soul. The males of my species were seen in high respect, but us females were so taboo that Egyptians completely left us out of their mythology. Have you ever heard of a female Egyptian sphinx? I thought not. Greeks took up their slack though. Most females of my kind began to flee to Greece, after the Egyptians began fearing us. Females tell darker riddles than our male counter-parts, and if someone fails to guess our riddle, we gain control of their souls. In a similar way, Egyptians were able to have slaves and monarchy, because if you learn the name of a person's (or god's) soul, you could control them. Around the time that the human timeline begins to go in reverse, Priestess failed to answer my riddle. Grief stricken, Priestess became a mute, and ran away to live as a High Priestess of Set. Her twin, and secret lover, became furious and vowed to destroy me for her sister's loss. She later learned of the impossibility of killing a sphinx, so she settled for learning my name. In such a way, Priestess and Mistress were both allowed to live far longer that a human lifespan, and the three of us have settled in a permanent bonding. Until one of us manages to free ourselves, we will all be stuck in an endless cycle.
I thought this all to myself as I rushed to Mistress, because I'm not bound to this world like others I am there in mere seconds. I slowly appear before her. "Hello, my mistress."
"I fare well, Sphinx." She spit at my feet. She had never liked me, because of my power over her twin. Still today, she occasionally tried to off me. "You on the other hand should be worried. My sister seems to think that you're messing with the future again. What ever you have been doing, it needs to end. Today."
"I know not what you mean, Mistress. I have done nothing wrong." I said plainly. Priestess and Mistress have a soul bond that allows them to communicate slightly despite Priestess becoming a mute years ago. Priestess can also see threads of the future, but I haven't done anything to have them sticking to me recently.
" Does the name Avondale Napyeer mean anything to you?" Mistress said glaring at me. I know that name very well, and Mistress is aware of that. Unfortunately for both of us he wasn't something that I was ready to give up for some hunch of Priestess's.