Author's Note: Here's part two of Echoes- Ptolemy. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Bart or Ptolemy, both which belong to Jonathan Stroud.
The Life and Times of Bartimaeus
A Bartimaeus Trilogy Fanfiction
Chapter Two: Echoes Part Two- Sphinx
It's hot and dry. I lick my metaphorical lips with a chapped tongue, and try not to think about water. Djinn can't feel dehydrated, but our essence does tend to melt after too long in the sun. As mine is. My mind turns to water again, and I try to wrench it away. It doesn't work. I turn to my task, working silently among the thousands of djinn summoned to build the Sphinx. I alone work on the eyes. It isn't until I am summoned again, several hundred years later, that I realize the Sphinx has the face of Ptolemy.