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Morning Star

CHAPTER XII
10/21

"Come down, lamb, and kneel before the lion, Abi, or we, the jackals, will rend you.

We will not acknowledge you, we who are of the fierce Hyksos blood.

While the obelisks stand that were set up by the great Hyksos Pharaoh whose descendant was Abi's mother, while the obelisks stand that are set there for all eternity, we will not acknowledge you.

Come down and take your place in our lord's harem, O Pharaoh's bastard daughter." "Ah!" Tua repeated after him, "while the obelisks stand that the Hyksos thief set up you will not acknowledge me, Pharaoh's bastard daughter!" Then she paused and seemed to grow disturbed; she sighed, wrung her hands a little, and said in a choking voice: "I am but one woman alone among you.

My father, Pharaoh, is dead, and you bid me lay down my rank and henceforth rule only through him who trapped Pharaoh and brought him to his end.


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