Through Eternity I Am Yours
Chapter 3
by Bob and Obo inc.
It was a long and rough journy over the mediterranean sea. many of the greeks feared that Posidan was angered at them for some slight they were unaware of. Aya became sea sick and weakend. The King of Athens feared she would not see the end of the journy. The queen and her ladies slowly taught Aya their language on the voyage when the poor girl felt well enough to learn. Every night Aya dispared of never seeing her beloved Seto again.
It was many weeks later and Seto had been searching far and wide for Aya and so far with no luck. He had traveled as far east as the Hitite empire and had yet to find any sign of her. He would soon head north around the mediterranean and towards Greece. But he would not make it there for many months, Perhaps years. He headed back to Egypt to let the few men that had accompanied him see their home one last time for quiet some time.
By the time Aya arrived in Athens she was almost completely fluent in the greek language. She had also mad friends amoung the queens ladies and the queen herself counted Aya as a friend. Aya was escourted to the Temple of Aphrodite as soon as the boat made port. She was introduced to the other maidens in service to the golden goddess. Then the King and Queen left to their shinning palace that over looked the city. As more weeks passed Aya continued to become sick in the mornings. It was thought that she had never quiet recovered from her previous ailment.
It was now four months since Aya had been forced from her home and her love. On the clear nights Aya would go out onto the cliffs and look out towards Egypt across the great sea. It was on such a night that Aya finally realised why she had been sick in the mornings. She had missed her womans time now four times, She was completely sure that she was with child. From living in the temple for so long she knew that all the maidens were supposed to be pure and untouched. She would have to go to the King the next day and tell him of her discovery. She was pregant with Priest Seto's child. She dropped to her knees and cried silently. "Seto...oh seto...where are you...are you not coming to find me..." She dispaired in her own language so that anyone who might happen to be spying would not know what she said.
Four Years Later.
It had taken much longer than Seto had first thought to first get the Pharohs permission to take a journy north to Greece. Finally four years after first setting out on his journy he rode his men into Athens. They rode to the palace and dismounted. Seto walked to the front door and servants rushed to open the doors for him. He walked throug the main entrance. A man dressed in the toga style favored by most greeks approached him. "My Lord. We were not expecting any foriegn ambasadors today." He said.
Seto meerly shook his head. "My arrival here is not an ambasadorial mission. I am here looking for someone, I wish to speak to your King if I may about this matter." Set said.
The man nodded. "Your name sir, so that I may announce you?" The man asked.
"I am High Priest Seto, Of Egypt. Cousin to Pharoh Atem." He said evenly.
The man nodded and led him to the main audience chamber.
The man walked in and addressed the court. "My Lords, My Ladies." He said gaining the attention of every eye in the room, Including a young woman who sat beside a young brown haired boy with azure blue eyes.
"My Lord," The man said to the king. "May I present The ambassador of Egypt, The High Priest Seto, Cousin to the Pharoh." The man bowed.
Seto strod into the room and right towards the King. Aya watched from her spot to the left of the thrown careful to not draw attention to herself. She turned to the woman beside her and spoke rapidly in greek then stood and started to leave the thrown room with the boy.
Seto had kneeled before the King. "King Patricles, I have traveled far from Egypt on my journy and I wish to ask for your aide." He said, chosing his words carefully.
"Aide with what." The King asked.
"May we speak in private?" Seto asked.
"Very well." The King stood and beckoned for Seto to stand as well. The king led him from the crowded thrown room and towards his private sitting room.
Aya, having recognised Seto the instant he walked into the room, was intrigued as to his purpose here in Athens. She motioned for a young woman to come forward. "Take him to my chamber, I will be there shortly." She said and then followed the two men to the sitting room, intending to listen in on the conversation.
The king motioned for Seto to sit. "Now, tell me why this is a private matter." The king asked.
"I am asking your assistance in finding..." He paused for a moment. " My wife."
The words stabbed Aya like a knife to the heart. So he had forgotten about her and remarried...and now she was missing. He hadnt come for her at all. A tear slid down her face as she ran back to her chamber.
"Your wife? Why would your wife be anywhere near Athens." The king asked.
"She went missing just after the Pharohs wedding, Yours is the last kingdom that I have not yet checked. I have been searching for her for four years and have yet to find any trace of her."
The King looked incredulous for a moment, Could he have paid for someone other than a simple slave girl..."Please, discribe your wife to me," He asked.
Seto smiled to himself, thinking back on Aya's image that he had stored away. "She is the most beautiful woman in the entire kingdom of Egypt, Possibly the world." He said. "She has hair the color of gold and eyes as green as the emeralds that decorate your crown." Seto looked to the King, "She was taken from me and sold to someone from a distant kingdom. It has been a long four years and I hope to find her and take her home with me." He finished sadly.
The King cleared his throat. "I know of the girl of which you speak." He said quietly.
"She is here? Where?" Seto asked.
"I will bring you to her." The king said. "And know this High Priest. I did not know she was anything other than a slave girl when I paid gold for her. I set her free the minute she stepped foot on Greece soil. She became a preistess in the temple of Aphrodite and then later a member of my own family." The king said.
"So she married here?" Seto asked sadly.
"No, I adopted her as my daughter." he said. Decideing that Aya could tell him of the boy when they met.
"So she has been treated well." Seto asked.
The King nodded and motioned towards the door they were now in front of. Seto knocked roughly on the door and a young woman answered. "My lord?" She said to the King.
"I wish to speak with my daughter." He said quietly. The girl nodded and moved aside. The two men entered the room.
"Alcmene" Aya called from out onthe balcony. "Who is there." She asked.
"It is I, Aya, and a guest I think you should meet." The king said.
Aya came around the corner and into the room. Her eyes locked with Seto's...She was speechless. How could he have known she was here.
Seto took a few steps towards Aya. "I cant believe I have found you at last.." he said. He held out a hand to her.
"What took you so long?" She whispered...completely forgeting what she had heard in the hall outside the sitting room.
"I tried to find you right away, But there were so many kingdoms to search and It seemed as if you had completely disappeared...But I did not forget...How could I forget...my wife.." He said and took two more steps and pulled her into his embrace.
Just then the little boy with blue eyes came running into the room... "Mommy...mommy..." The boy stopped..."Who are you..." he asked. Looking directly at Seto.
Seto looked directly into the brilliant blue eyes and there was not a single doubt in his mind that the boy was his. He looked at Aya who merely nodded. "I have a son.." He whispered.
The boy came closer and tugged on his mothers skirt. "Who is that man mommy.." he asked.
Aya kneeled down to look her son in the eyes. "Skaara, This man. He is your father."