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Morning Star

CHAPTER IX
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Asti, you are high-born and wise, one whom I love, and honour much, as does the Queen, my daughter, but you can still be jealous, as I have noted long.

Asti, be not deceived, it was jealousy of Merytra that whispered in your ears, not the spirit of the divine Ahura.

Now go and take your terrors with you, for this dark conspirator, Merytra, waits in my chamber to unrobe me, and talk me to sleep with her pleasant jests and gossip." "Pharaoh has spoken, I go," said Asti in her quiet voice.

"May Pharaoh's rest be sweet, and his awaking happy." That night Tua could not sleep.

Whenever she shut her eyes visions rose before her mind, terrifying, fantastic visions in all of which the fat and hideous Abi played a part.


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