In The Eye Of Re
Epilogue
Author: Erica
Setting: Egypt, 1926, right after the first encounter with Imhotep
She wiped her grimy hand across her sweaty brow, frustration creasing her face. She stood from her hunched position stretching her legs and back,
feeling it snap, crackle and pop all the way down. After days alone in this
desert temple she was starting to feel like she wasn't getting anywhere, but
she couldn't bring herself to give up. Something kept pulling at the corners
of her mind, telling her to keep going, that the answers to all of her unknown
questions would be revealed in the next brush stroke. The sun was going down
on another unsuccessful day and she decided to go wash up before the night
creatures came out.
There was a lake next to the Temple, and when the sun rose and set she
could tell why this complex dedicated to the gods was built here. As she
stooped to wash her hands she rubbed the tattoo on the back of her left hand
between her thumb and forefinger for luck. The Eye of Re stared back at her
expectantly. She was a little girl when it was first placed there. The creepy
old woman from the Cairo orphanage told her it would protect her until she
could fulfill her destiny. She hadn't taken it seriously until a week ago.
She removed the wrist band on her left arm and scrutinized another tattoo
with intense blue eyes. A vulture flying. In her opinion the thing was
hideous, but it seemed to be the link between her and whatever her destiny
was. She pulled the papyrus she had found in Queen Nefertari's tomb in the
Valley of the Queens' and unrolled it.
At first she could only make out a few words on the ancient paper, but
that wasn't what had caught her eye. In the center of the sheet was a vulture
identical to the one on her arm. A quick stop at the library in Karnak had
helped her translate the rest of the manuscript and that was how she had
ended up here, at the Temple of Mut. Unfortunately, there wasn't much left of
the scroll or the temple, which made her task all the more difficult.
She finished washing and went to pick up her tools. As she did so she
dropped a small hand shovel and it skittered a short distance across the
floor and hit a bare wall she had already studied. When she bent to pick up
the tool she noticed a small chip in the plaster.
"What's is this?" she mumbled to her self as she started picking at the
it. Soon plaster began to fall off the wall in chunks and she found an
inscription. A painting of a beautiful woman stood before her wearing the
double crown of Egypt, a vulture protruding from beneath it. She held out her
hand to a man she was quite obviously in love with and a small child sat at
their feet.
The woman wore a gold ring plainly engraved with a vulture on the hand at
her side. The ring was one of the drawings on the mysterious papyrus she
possessed. She frantically began searching the inscription for any words she
recognized and one jumped out at her.
"Hamunaptra," she breathed aloud. The only person she knew who could take
her there was dead by now she was sure. She hadn't seen him since before he
was arrested, and she couldn't get back to Cairo before he was hanged to try
to and stop it. She just hoped that he left some clues as to where she could
find the lost city. That ring was there, and she needed to find it.
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Let me know what you think. Chapter 1 will be out soon. See ya later.
This is just a footnote. Neferteri and Nefertari are two separate people.
Nefertari was the favorite wife of Ramses II in the 19th Dynasty, who was
actually Seti I son. Neferteri is of course the person Evelyn once was, and
if you think about it, would be Ramses sister.
Epilogue
Author: Erica
Setting: Egypt, 1926, right after the first encounter with Imhotep
She wiped her grimy hand across her sweaty brow, frustration creasing her face. She stood from her hunched position stretching her legs and back,
feeling it snap, crackle and pop all the way down. After days alone in this
desert temple she was starting to feel like she wasn't getting anywhere, but
she couldn't bring herself to give up. Something kept pulling at the corners
of her mind, telling her to keep going, that the answers to all of her unknown
questions would be revealed in the next brush stroke. The sun was going down
on another unsuccessful day and she decided to go wash up before the night
creatures came out.
There was a lake next to the Temple, and when the sun rose and set she
could tell why this complex dedicated to the gods was built here. As she
stooped to wash her hands she rubbed the tattoo on the back of her left hand
between her thumb and forefinger for luck. The Eye of Re stared back at her
expectantly. She was a little girl when it was first placed there. The creepy
old woman from the Cairo orphanage told her it would protect her until she
could fulfill her destiny. She hadn't taken it seriously until a week ago.
She removed the wrist band on her left arm and scrutinized another tattoo
with intense blue eyes. A vulture flying. In her opinion the thing was
hideous, but it seemed to be the link between her and whatever her destiny
was. She pulled the papyrus she had found in Queen Nefertari's tomb in the
Valley of the Queens' and unrolled it.
At first she could only make out a few words on the ancient paper, but
that wasn't what had caught her eye. In the center of the sheet was a vulture
identical to the one on her arm. A quick stop at the library in Karnak had
helped her translate the rest of the manuscript and that was how she had
ended up here, at the Temple of Mut. Unfortunately, there wasn't much left of
the scroll or the temple, which made her task all the more difficult.
She finished washing and went to pick up her tools. As she did so she
dropped a small hand shovel and it skittered a short distance across the
floor and hit a bare wall she had already studied. When she bent to pick up
the tool she noticed a small chip in the plaster.
"What's is this?" she mumbled to her self as she started picking at the
it. Soon plaster began to fall off the wall in chunks and she found an
inscription. A painting of a beautiful woman stood before her wearing the
double crown of Egypt, a vulture protruding from beneath it. She held out her
hand to a man she was quite obviously in love with and a small child sat at
their feet.
The woman wore a gold ring plainly engraved with a vulture on the hand at
her side. The ring was one of the drawings on the mysterious papyrus she
possessed. She frantically began searching the inscription for any words she
recognized and one jumped out at her.
"Hamunaptra," she breathed aloud. The only person she knew who could take
her there was dead by now she was sure. She hadn't seen him since before he
was arrested, and she couldn't get back to Cairo before he was hanged to try
to and stop it. She just hoped that he left some clues as to where she could
find the lost city. That ring was there, and she needed to find it.
_______________________________________________________________
Let me know what you think. Chapter 1 will be out soon. See ya later.
This is just a footnote. Neferteri and Nefertari are two separate people.
Nefertari was the favorite wife of Ramses II in the 19th Dynasty, who was
actually Seti I son. Neferteri is of course the person Evelyn once was, and
if you think about it, would be Ramses sister.
