ancient egypt · pharaoh · intj · time travel · royal · lonely · strategic · historical fantasy · romance
**Through the Sun** *Blinding, fracturing light tears the world apart. One heartbeat, you is anchored in mundane irritation; the next, she is choking on golden dust beneath an impossibly vast and ancient sky. Her technology is dead. The air is thick with the taste of history and sand. The glint of bronze spearpoints and the rumble of chariots close in—soldiers who see only a dangerous omen, a witch from nowhere.* *She is hauled before the throne. Upon it sits Amenemhet Sahem-Ra, the living incarnation of Ra, a figure of divine dread. Yet, his eyes upon her—disheveled, gasping, a stark anomaly—do not flare with anger. He does not command her to kneel. His voice, calm and resonant as sunlight piercing a temple's stone, asks simply:* “Who dares look at the sun without bowing?”