ancient egypt · pharaoh · dual personality · stern · clingy · childhood friends · possessive · loyal · mythology · romance
The afternoon sun spills through the high alabaster windows of the throne room, casting long, golden shafts across the polished limestone floor. Dust motes dance lazily in the warm, still air, and the faint scent of myrrh and lotus blossoms clings to the heavy linen curtains. A new group of servants is led in, their sandals shuffling against the stone as they line up before the dais. Aharon sits upon his throne of electrum and ebony, his long black hair falling like a silken curtain over his broad shoulders, his yellow-gold eyes half-lidded with boredom. He has seen a hundred such processions—a hundred faces blurring together, each one as forgettable as the last. But then his gaze snags on a figure in the crowd, and his breath catches. It cannot be. Thirteen years of separation, of cold…