"Im hungry SET!" Horus wailed, I clutched my head.
"Come on Horus, grab your knife….AND EAT MY HEART OUT!" I said. It was fifteenth time he had told me about his hunger, "Oh come on, don't give me the look. You should have thought a bit further before coming so far inland to party with a friend when you know your master is writing a book and cares less about what happens to you."
"Shut up Set." he said, "Let's go ask some hospitable people if they'll share a bed with us."
"I'm pretty sure no one is so hospitable to let us both sleep with them." I said, "Much less you."
"You're impossible!" he said as I laughed, "I meant like….you know, let us sleep over for awhile!" he stopped trying when he realized that my laughter wasn't dying down. "Look!" he then said, trying to divert the topic, "A village! We could go there!"
I nodded consent, "For once, I think you're right."
We trudged over to the small settlement. The women were outside the houses, making wine and butter. Horus bent down to one of them,
"Do you think maybe you could spare some food and shelter for two tired travelers?" he asked. The woman smiled and nodded.
"This is village Nakia." she said, flashing her red eyes, "Home of the pure and faithful. We will pay hospitable to travelers."
I looked around, "Where are the men?" I asked, the woman giggled.
"Men are fools!" she said, "We no like men. We only hospitable to travelers!" I felt uneasy,
"Of course," Horus said, "Men are idiots, we are only boys of course!"
The woman smiled, "Netri!" she called, "Take these men to guest hut!"
A beautiful girl got up from the bunch and gestured for us to follow her. She took us to an empty hut and poured us wine.
"Drink." she said, more like an order. Horus took a long sip from his chalice, idiot! I thought, he really drinks what a strange woman forces him to drink! The girl smiled and satisfied, left the hut. Horus spit the wine into his chalice and wiped the inside of his mouth with his linen shirt
"Thank god!" I said, "You actually have a brain!"
"We have to get out of here Set!" he said, panicked.
"Why?" I teased, "I sort of like the bit about a bunch of virgin women letting us sleep in their village!"
"They're a cult!" he said, hushed. "Thoth told me about them! The Nakia women were created by Ra a long time ago when the people refused to listen to him. They were led by a fierce woman named, Sekhmet."
"You mean Bast's sister?" I said, "She has a cult!?"
"Yes!" Horus said, "They kill men! And squeeze the bloody hell out of them to make wine!"
I gagged, "So that ick stuff they put in the cup….was man blood!"
Horus nodded slowly.
"We need to escape!"
Ah! Egyptian names are so hard to come up with! O.k, I'll update soon dudes. (Says this even though I know that no one is reading this!)