Then he prayed his pardon and asked who would succeed him on the throne, but Ki said he did not know, as a Kherheb who had been threatened could never remember anything, which indeed he never can--except to pay back the threatener." "And did he know, Bakenkhonsu ?" By way of answer the old Councillor crumbled some bread fine upon the table, then with his finger traced among the crumbs the rough likeness of a jackal-headed god and of two feathers, after which with a swift movement he swept the crumbs onto the floor.
"Seti!" I whispered, reading the hieroglyphs of the Prince's name, and he nodded and laughed in his great fashion.
"Men come to their own sometimes, Ana, especially if they do not seek their own," he said.

"But if so, much must happen first that is terrible.

The new Pharaoh is not the only man who dreams, Ana.

Of late years my sleep has been light and sometimes I dream, though I have no magic like to that of Ki." "What did you dream ?" "I dreamed of a great multitude marching like locusts over Egypt.

Before them went a column of fire in which were two hands.