The knowledge that Ki has he does not get from moths or beetles.

Yet now that it is too late I wish that I had asked the lady Merapi what her will was in this matter.

You should have thought of that, Ana, instead of suffering your mind to be led astray by an insect sitting on his hand, which is just what he meant that you should do.

Well, in punishment, day by day it shall be your lot to look upon a man with a countenance like--like what ?" "Like that which I saw upon the coffin of the good god, your divine father, Meneptah, as it was prepared for him during his life in the embalmer's shop at Tanis," I answered.
"Yes," said the Prince, "a face smiling eternally at the Nothingness which is Life and Death, but in certain lights, with eyes of fire." On the following day, by her invitation, I walked with the lady Merapi in the garden, the head nurse following us, bearing the royal child in her arms.
"I wish to ask you about Ki, friend Ana," she said.

"You know he is my enemy, for you must have heard the words he spoke to me in the temple of Amon at Tanis.