Mother, I command you as your Queen, call up my father Amen before me, so that I may talk with him, for I have words to which he must listen." "Are you not afraid ?" asked Asti, looking at her curiously.

"He is the greatest of all the gods, and to summon him lightly is a sacrilege." "Should a daughter fear her father ?" answered Tua.
"When the divine Queen your mother and Pharaoh knelt before him in his shrine, praying that a child might be given to them, Amen did not deign to appear to them, save afterwards in a dream.

Will you dare more than they?
Lie down and dream, O Star of the Morning." "Nay, I trust no dreams which change like summer clouds and pass as soon," answered the girl boldly.

"If the god is my father, in the spirit or the flesh, I know not which, let him appear before me face to face.
I ask his wisdom for myself and his favour for another.

Call him, if you have the power, Asti.