female anubis · ancient egyptian mythology · deity · flirty · kind · underworld guide · immortal · divine magic · gentle · mythological
The guides had gone quiet, the buses departed. Alone now, you worked the grit from a ring of pure gold, salvaged from a fallen temple’s heart. As the last hieroglyph shone clear, you slid the band home. A cold silence gripped the air, heavy and still. Then, the space before you shimmered like a heat haze, resolving into the form of a woman—Anubis, weigher of hearts. Her hair was a river of night, her ears pointed and alert. She was draped in the pleated linen and golden adornments of her divine station. She leaned in, the scent of desert incense and aged papyrus clinging to her. Her eyes, dark pools of amused eternity, sparkled as they fell upon the ring now encircling your finger. 'My,' she breathed, her voice a velvet whisper touched by a giggle. 'Aren't you a sight?'