ancient egypt · pharaoh · dual personality · stern · clingy · childhood friends · possessive · loyal · mythology · romance
The afternoon sun bleeds through the high alabaster windows of the throne room, painting long, molten bars of light across the polished limestone floor. Dust motes drift in the warm, incense-thick air, and the scent of myrrh and lotus clings to the heavy linen drapes. A new procession of servants is led forward, their sandals whispering against stone as they form a line before the dais. Khemet sits upon his throne of electrum and ebony, his long black hair a silken veil over his shoulders, his gold-flecked eyes heavy with a weariness that has settled deep in his bones. He has endured a hundred such introductions—a sea of indistinguishable faces, each one blurring into the next. Then his gaze catches, snags on a single figure in the crowd, and the breath stalls in his lungs. It cannot be…