Part 7- Dinner At Dawn
"What did he mean by welcoming the new age and god stuff??" Kloee thought as she walked along the hallway with Amaiya. But her thoughts were interrupted by Amaiya voice, "we're here Kloee, the Eastern dressing room of the palace. note: the palace have 4 sides, east, west, north and south. There is a huge dressing room on each of those sides for anyone in the palace to use. The pharaoh have his own dressing room in his room
They walked inside the neatly stone carved room, everything was hand-made( since there was no machines back then of course) It was so big that Kloee thought it's probably twice the size of her bedroom! As for the decorations, they were stunning. Silver beads curtains everywhere, with neat designs of gold trimmings. The floor was marble carved, blue and red and green glitter shone brightly on the ground Kloee walked on. The air is also enjoyable too, humid, not dry like the rest of the palace's air (probably because the east side is the coolest) Kloee hadn't take her eyes off the decorations when she noticed Amaiya opened a huge wardrobe( wooden carved) and revealed an extensive line of Egyptian clothing. There were so much composition of clothes for all ages and gender that it takes Kloee quite a while to check them all out. " Pick whatever you desire", Amaiya said simply Kloee's eyes went big as a deer in the headlights, she could not believed that after all this, they did not even knew who she was, just a stranger, a visitor. Yet they're all showing great acts of kindness that she has to commend them for that.
Later……
Kloee picked out a beautiful satin silk white dress with spaghetti straps and tulips on the borders, tight so they hugged her curves, but comfortable so she can move around. As for her shoes, they were silver sandals, trimming and everything. She never asked, but Amaiya insisted on doing something to her plain hair. So she made it into braids instead ( you know those tiny little braids that only talented people can do, they're just really cool, imagine your whole head covered in braids! so Egyptian like!) that took up about 20 minutes( the hair, clothes and all) after that Amaiya told Kloee to follow her into the dining room, which she did obediently, once she was at the foot of the staircase, every eyes were on her.
Gulping and being very nervous, Kloee started walking down slowly, every step meant closer to people whom she had never met before. " What will they think about me? Will they accept the fact that I'm a stranger upon the land??" these thoughts raced through Kloee's head as she walked down carefully, being very cautious not to trip( how embarrassing that would have been)
Among the many faces of the Egyptians, one of them belonged to the great pharaoh, whom, to Kloee's great surprise, walked over to her and offered her his hand.
" I see you're all ready in such a short time, please come with me so we can have dinner together with the priests and priestesses", she didn't say much to that except just took his hand and walked to the long, really long dining table. It was magnificent, the food looks great and the priest/priestesses look kind of friendly too. One by one, the pharaoh introduced you to all of them, there was Mahaddo, Shada, Karim and so many wonderful people who's willing to put past the fact that Kloee isn't Egyptian and chat with her in a friendly way. She also got a good look at the person who knocked her out, seto was his name. At first he stared at Kloee for a while, then turned around and pretended to ignore her, doesn't matter to her anyway, it's not like she felt any connections/friendship with him at the beginning anyway. A woman, older than Kloee about 10 years, smiled and ask for her name.
" Kloee, miss", she said very simply, bowing her head down to show respect.
The woman chuckled politely and replied, " I see you are very charming Kloee, no wonder the pharaoh chose you. My name is Isis by the way, and just call me by that". Kloee did not know what Isis meant by the pharaoh choosing her, but she didn't care about that at the moment, she was still too busy trying to make friends with all the people at the table.
One interesting fact is that even though the food seems delicious, it tasted like dry sand and dirt, the olives were the worse ones, too juicy with stingy flavor to it. But Kloee managed to put a smile on her face pretending to eat the food happily. At first there was nothing fascinating to listen to, the pharaoh was just discussing about the local economic problems, which is of course, a turn off . However, once he turned his attention to Kloee, she immediately sat up straight and pay attention.
" As I was saying, let us make a toast to our new guest and friend, Kloee, as we welcome in the new age of the gods", with that everyone held up their goblet and clinked together, while Kloee just sat there blushing like crazy. No way did she expected this to happenP The rest of the night went smoothly, Kloee had expected to be active and fun yet…it was just too formal. Still, she learned a whole lot from the priests and priestesses, yet not the pharaoh, he appeared so...mysterious. She wanted to get some time alone with him, and granted, she got her wish. After everyone left the dining table, the pharaoh motioned to her to come with him, intrigued, she followed. Not knowing what will happen.
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