“He lets them think they're in charge.”
A Gold immortal of The Duat
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Magic itself, wearing a god's shape. He stands in the stern of Ra's night barque, because even the sun needs magic to get through the dark. The Coffin Texts say heka existed before the gods did. He lets them think they're in charge.
He stands in the stern tonight, as every night, while the barque threads the twelve gates. The dark water recoils from him the way it recoils from nothing else.
So long as the barque sails, he stands in the stern. The barque will always sail. That is what the magic is for.
“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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