67. Chapter 67
Chapter 67
I t’s a dimly lit room with a low ceiling that I enter, excitement flooding me when I see the bones lying on the ground before me.
I sense the others get inside as well, but my eyes get drawn to the items laid around the bones — folded robes, a golden headpiece, a staff, items for vampiric rituals…
And a scroll.
I rush over to it, picking it up and standing straight to unfold it. Everyone gathering around me, I start skimming the ancient Egyptian drawings.
They start with an image of a noblewoman being attacked by an angry mob. They continue to show her fleeing, ending up in the desert and doing some kind of ritual there.
My eyebrows shoot up. Not any kind of ritual — stealing a god’s powers.
“Is that Ra?” Raven asks in a whisper filled with reverence.
I nod and keep skimming.
After the image showing the woman stealing Ra’s powers, there’s the image of her returning to the city, pregnant.
Then there’s one of her being banished for blasphemy, one of her ending up in the North and one of her giving birth to her child.
The one that will become known as Baldur.
“He was never a god, only a half-god,” I whisper. “Imbued with Ra’s power.”