The Dracula Dossier by James Reese

Author:James Reese
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780061981913
Publisher: HarperCollins

“Good God!” exclaimed Caine.

“No,” said I, “…not a good god at all.”

Caine, standing at my side, struggled to read aloud the note’s scribbled, stilted English, which I here transcribe as accurately as I am able, underlining those words written in the hand of Francis Tumblety so as to distinguish them from that secondary, stronger-seeming hand that showed the influence of Set:

“My heart, my mother; my heart, my mother! My heart, my being! May naught oppose me at Judgement and may there be no opposition to me Returning now to the Presence of the Chiefs who caused my Name to reek, and may there be no second condemnation of Set by He Who Keepeth the Balance! Heed me, Thou in Whom dwelleth my ka and khaibit!16

“I heed You, mighty Set. I heed He who strengthens my limbs. May You come forth through me. May You use me. May You Rise and be Redeemed!

“And may thou hearken to and heed the coming Judgement so that thou may spread word of He Who Hath Been Wronged. Thou will sayeth that the heart of Set hath been weighed anew and that His Heart-soul hath borne testimony on His behalf and that He hath been Redeemed upon the Great Balance. Thou will sayeth that there hath not been found Wickedness in Him and that He hath not committed any Evil act and that He hath not set His mouth in motion with Words of Evil. This they say Set did whilst He walked the earth. And so the Scales of Truth fell against Him!

“You were adjudged wrong, mighty Set.

“Heed well the Weighing in the Balance of the harvested hearts of Set!

“I will pay heed. I will harvest the hearts.

“Onto the Balance shall go the worthless hearts to show as false the Feather of Maat and to show the Truth of Set! Set shall be Rightly Judged against these hearts and Set shall Rise and be the Beloved Lord of the Two Lands. He shall sit amongst the Favored Ones.

“So shall it come to pass, mighty Set.

“How great Set shall be when He Rises!

“Great the mighty Set! Rise the mighty Set!

“Let no man bear testimony against Set in the presence of the Keeper of the Balance! He who speaketh against Set shall have his heart devoured by Am-mit and have his Heart-soul bound in fetters in the Boat of Millions for all Time, for Set is Time and Set is greater than all gods. So Set decrees.

“I am Am-mit. I harvest and devour hearts at Your bidding. I shall rip the hinderers even if their hearts be worthy. I shall rip them as You command it.

“So commandeth Set.”

Only as I let the scroll fall back onto the scullery table did I realise I’d taken it up. Caine and I watched as it curled unto itself like…like a scorpion’s tail. Indeed, we stood there some while before Caine quoted from the scroll, so:

“‘I shall rip the hinderers….’ Am I right in reading that as a threat, Bram? To us: the hinderers?”

Caine wanted me to say he was wrong.

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