“The afterlife runs on delegation.”
A Faience immortal of The Duat
3 known connections · an open question
The answerer. A little blue worker with Spell 6 on its chest, buried by the hundreds to do the dead person's chores in the Field of Reeds: called to hoe, to sow, to carry sand, it answers — here I am. The afterlife runs on delegation.
In the Field of Reeds, a hundred little blue workers are hoeing somebody's plot in the eternal afternoon. One of them is whistling.
They will answer every call. That is what the spell says, and the spell is carved on their chests.
“In a sealed tomb at Saqqara, a shabti answered. No one had called — the tomb had not been opened in four hundred years — but the little blue worker sat up in the dark and said, clear as lamplight: here I am. Anubis went down himself. He came back up and would not say what he found.”
Here I am — but nobody called.
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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