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raises his hand, extending it towards me. A glowing fist slams into me. I'm too surprised to react on time and fly backward. My body hits a column with such force, it tumbles on top of me.
I shake some dust from my head. There is a huge chunk of stone on top of me. If I had a mortal body, this would've killed me. Thank Ra I don't, then, huh? The room is quite for a moment. Do they thing that was it? Can they really think I'll let them have it so easy? The though is so ridiculous, I can't hold back my laughter.
Power rushes into my arms and I toss aside the stone as if it's a roll of papyrus. I'm still laughing as I rise from the ruins.
"Nice" I roar. "Completely ineffective, but nice! It will be a pleasure chopping you to bits, Horus, as I did your father before you. I will entomb you all in this chamber to increase my storm—all four of my precious siblings, and the storm will be large enough to envelop the world!"
Carter blinks. "Four?"
"Oh, yes." My eyes drift to the godling, who has quietly retreated to one side of the room. "I haven't forgotten you, my dear."
I wish I could.
Zia glances at Carter. "Carter, don't worry about me. He's trying to distract you."
Because she knows all about distracting, right? Because she knows all about me? Sometimes I wonder why I let her in to begin with. No one believed it was true, but she consumed my entire world. Her long black hair tangled in between my fingers, her head resting on my chest as she quietly slept. I was in love with her soul, so I gave her mine without a second thought. Sweet Nile, she didn't even ask for it! Yet, she smiled, lips to my ear, whispering the name she made sure I shall never forget. How have I been so stupid, so blind?
The girl in front of me is not even a shadow of Nephthys.
"Lovely goddess," I purr. "The form does not do you justice, but your choices were limited, weren't they?"
I move toward her, my staff beginning