The Priestess the Queen and the Burial
There’s no escape from the priestess’ scheming — Part three of three
A chilling, exotic collaboration between Posy Churchgate & JK Mill
When Queen Sefideh could not provide an heir for King Hepsekar, a young priestess Ntuk became the vessel in a secret breeding ceremony. The lies around the child’s true parentage soon fuelled the priestess’ resentment and gave rise to a bitter plot wherein Ntuk and the queen consorted with the king then mortally wounded him …read on.
When the moment came, Sefideh was surprised by the tears that appeared.
Hepsekar groaned in his sleep as she sat nearby, memories of their life together intermingling with fantasies of thrones and conquest, of the tryst with Ntuk earlier that night, of a grown Rahmun, her son, a victorious general. Together they would bring glory to Egypt and its people.
Was that not a worthy desire? A vision worth struggling for? A future worth killing for? And yet…the man moaning in his fitful sleep was her husband, her lover…and the father of her child.
No. Sefideh knew she could rule better, and Rahmun better still after her. And the deed had been done; Hepsekar would die no matter what she did, nor how she felt…
