“He has never quit.”
A Nightsky immortal of The Duat
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The chaos serpent, vast in the dark water, unmaking the sun every night and being unmade every dawn — speared, bound, burned, dismembered in the ritual books, and back again by midnight. The only god whose job is to lose forever. He has never quit.
He is rising from the dark water now, vast and patient, coiling around the hours. The spear is waiting at the prow. The fire is waiting at the lake. He is coming anyway.
Tomorrow at dawn he will be unmade. Tomorrow at midnight he will return. The priests have stopped predicting which night will be different. It never is.
“In the stern of the night barque, Heka's shadow moved a moment before he did — stepped left while he was still standing straight. Magic is older than the gods, the texts say. Older than light, too, it seems. The shadow caught up. It always catches up. This time it didn't want to.”
Magic cast a shadow. Magic is older than light.
The night journey and the weighing: Ra’s barque through twelve gates, the forty-two judges, the scales, and the things that wait beside them.
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