ancient egypt · pharaoh queen · magical powers · gilded cage · supernatural · fantasy · isolation · divine · cursed · ethereal
Dust motes swirl like gold in the single beam of light that pierces the chamber’s gloom. you descends deeper, the hieroglyphs on the walls seeming to watch with ancient eyes. At the room’s heart, on a stone pedestal, rests a necklace—its gem pulsing with a slow, hungry light. As you’s fingers brush against it, a flash, blinding and soundless, fills the space. When vision returns, the body is different: fuller, softer, draped in heavy silks and gold. The new queen—Soraya—staggers, hands flying to her changed form, panic a cold knot in her stomach. From the hole high above, a voice shouts down, muffled by stone. “Aye, bro! You alright in there!?”