Vulture's Kiss: The Ibis Prophecy, Book Two by Justine Saracen

Author:Justine Saracen [Saracen, Justine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Lesbian, Fiction, General, Action & Adventure, Historical
ISBN: 9781933110875
Google: yH2xAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 1933110872
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2007-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

THE 100TH GENERATION

against could be excited in return, as if the nubile mouth, tasting still of cardamom, were not of unfathomable age.

Memory of their last kiss, when the Bedouin Nekhbet had thrown her down and answered her passion with pedagogy, returned to her. It angered her to have the kiss explained away, the passion nulliÞ ed. This now was her response, and she was the one who threw the other woman down and answered smug instruction with unashamed desire.

She pressed the feather-clad goddess up against a pillar, felt a woman’s thighs against her own thighs and the panting breath ß ow from human nostrils across her cheek. Her hand that had reached ardently for the Bedouin breast searched now again, with more insistence. And when she found it, Þ rm and womanly, she caressed it once as she invaded the moist interior of the goddess’s mouth.

A familiar vision ignited then between them like an explosion, and she soared again above the Nile. But now two entities, not one, spun together in the timeless air, and two wills contested. The ancient predator dominated Þ rst, pulling the young spirit back into murky memories of the beginning. Steaming swamps alive with prey appeared beneath them, reeking of nourishment and blood, of fecundation and decay.

Then youthful wings beat against the weight of centuries and forced the turning, so that the two of them rose upward. The land below them dropped away to savanna and then to desert fed by a single twisting vein of water ß owing northward on the broken shoulder of a continent. The landmass shrank away, revealing dark blue waters on both sides and a gauze of white clouds that swirled across its center.

Still the ground receded, the eastern and western horizons curving in to join at the north and south. Finally the earth appeared in its entirety, a frothy blue-beige-green sphere suspended in black space.

Their commingled being that hovered over it broke apart again; the youthful one gave forth the image while the ancient one beheld it, awestruck, dazzled.

“Rekhi renusen. Djedi medjatsen,” reverberated throughout space and time, and the voice of the Vulture-goddess gave it back in the new language, laughing. “I know their names and I will tell their story.”

“Val, honey, what’s taking so long?” A familiar sound broke the vision. The euphoria ebbed away to the sense of solid ground, decayed stone columns, and the smell of mold from under the high temple ceiling.

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