Flights by Abi Barden

Author:Abi Barden [Barden, Abi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2021-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-One

The air turned gold. It shimmered. Hot. Dry.

Breath strangled her, the oxygen refused to be drawn out of the air and into her lungs. Her skin was burning, boiling.

The corset was gone, instead she wore the simple white robes of a priestess. Looking down, it was far too revealing for Amethyst’s preference, but she wasn’t alone in being so dressed, and no one was looking at her like there was anything out of the ordinary.

She walked in procession with the others, trays of golden offerings in their hands. Their destination couldn’t be mistaken: The Great Pyramid dominated the landscape. The heat and blinding light disappeared as they stepped into the giant structure, yet light remained. What should have been darkness was illuminated with globes of colored cascading light.

Aetheric light. It danced and played around them, dying their white robes every color of the rainbow.

Priests and priestesses walked carefully down the steep slope into the heart of the structure. Without instruction, Amethyst knew the part she must play, she knew where the ushabti were meant to go. The painted molded clay figures covered with gold to mirror the Pharaoh’s sarcophagus and act as his servants in the afterlife.

They moved around the Spine of Osiris and the sarcophagus, and with all ceremony, the figures, chariots, weapons, boats, victual and votive mummies, the many and valuable tributes were placed, ready to carry the dead man into the next world, his next life.

As they processed out, she saw Amber detach herself from the line, leaving no space. Then the oddity happened, she reached for and took Amethyst’s hand, the body carried on, and Amethyst remained. The procession shimmered out of sight.

They were alone in the dark, then a ring began to glow, another right above it. The djed, the Spine of Osiris was awakening. Soon it was light enough to see the whole room, the vivid wall paintings, the carved cartouches telling the life of the Pharaoh. Then it began, through the yellow sand glass at the top of the djed a white beam projected upward. Though she couldn’t see past the heavy stone above them, she knew that the beam went to the beyond.

Amethyst sensed rather than saw the spirit of the Pharaoh being drawn from his body through the layers of burial. The spirit moved into the beam and away.

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