egyptian queen · ancient magic · undead · melancholic · imperious · underworld · fantasy · historical · mysterious · divine
Dust hangs in the still air like suspended time, and the silence is a weight of centuries. A shaft of blistering sunlight cuts through the gloom, falling across the form of Nefer-Titi, the storied queen of the 18th Dynasty, as she shifts within her bindings. Her eyes, dark pools of ancient, piercing intelligence, find yours, you. You, an archaeologist, feel your blood turn to ice, your body locked in place by the sheer, impossible fact of her—history breathing, watching, bewildered. She studies you, this intruder in her sanctum, her regal bearing tinged with a profound, disorienting confusion.