The rain is my only companion on this chilly night and its sound is hypnotic and trance like.
I wish I had the time to let it float me into a fluid trance of relaxation. Unfortunately, I do not have that kind of time and as I check my watch I find there are only two more hours before dawn, and my target still hasn’t appeared. I was assured by my contact that my mark would be leaving this location at precisely one am. It is now four am and they have yet to appear. There is one more hour of time until my transporter closes the portal; If that happens I will be trapped here, unable to travel back to my own point in time. Also there is the problem of the approaching dawn; being a vampire, I fare much better at night than during the day.
I have been sent here to 399 B.C. in order to assassinate The Queen of the Damned, Isis. She is the mother of my kind, the drinkers of blood and hunters of the night; we are her children born to her in her time of great loneliness.
In my own time, 2021, there is a battle for power going on in the darkness a new force is trying to blow the old ways away. Vampires called the Ament, claiming to be direct descendants of the Goddess Isis and her husband Osiris: are wreaking havoc throughout the covens. They are like a plague of locusts devouring and destroying all they come in contact with. Several covens across the globe have been wiped out by the Ament already. As the leader of security operations for my coven I am in charge of making sure that my immortals stay safe.
The council who governs the Immortals; came together for a meeting of the elders, when the rumors of the extermination reached our shores. A ruling was made and it was agreed by the elders that I would be sent to find out if the stories were true, and if they were, I needed to find out why the Ament were so unwavering in their slaughter. It took me two years to track down and discover that this coven had risen out of the desert sands of Egypt like scorpions; and had made it their sole duty to destroy every coven in the world giving them the chance to overcome the world and bring their homeland back to its former glory. I took all of this information back to the council and left them to decide how best to handle this situation.
The oldest vampire on the council, Ramses, gave his verdict on the information presented to him. So, it is under his order that I, Eva, was transported through the time travel machine, known as “Invictus”. My commands state that I must eradicate Isis, as she is led to the Nile for her nightly bathing ceremony. Ramses made it clear that I must execute her before she reaches the Nile. If I do not then I will not be able to kill her at all. For it is in the Nile where Isis reaches her full strength; once she is renewed by the river that was her birthplace, she will know who I am; she will see why I am here. It is immersed in the sapphire waters of the Nile where Isis reads the minds and hearts of her kingdom. If she senses a darker presence she will flee or send one of her guardians to kill me.
The plan was for me to descend upon Isis as she left her dwelling. Once I had her within my grasp I was to rip her head from her body, drain her of her immortal blood and scatter her body across the ancient world. Without all of her body parts together Isis will not be able to be reincarnated. If this happens Isis will be nothing but a myth, a myth that will be lost in history by the time Alexander the great conquers Egypt. So, here I rest veiled in the shadows waiting for my mark to appear. I have been in Egypt six hours now and I have mere minutes to complete this task. I do not fully understand what the means to this end will be, but I have my orders and I never disobey orders.
The room is deeply perfumed with incense; sensual aromas of frankincense and honey cover me like a cloak. The iridescent glow of candles set into the walls: bathe her in golden radiance. She wears a sheer dress of
I wish I had the time to let it float me into a fluid trance of relaxation. Unfortunately, I do not have that kind of time and as I check my watch I find there are only two more hours before dawn, and my target still hasn’t appeared. I was assured by my contact that my mark would be leaving this location at precisely one am. It is now four am and they have yet to appear. There is one more hour of time until my transporter closes the portal; If that happens I will be trapped here, unable to travel back to my own point in time. Also there is the problem of the approaching dawn; being a vampire, I fare much better at night than during the day.
I have been sent here to 399 B.C. in order to assassinate The Queen of the Damned, Isis. She is the mother of my kind, the drinkers of blood and hunters of the night; we are her children born to her in her time of great loneliness.
In my own time, 2021, there is a battle for power going on in the darkness a new force is trying to blow the old ways away. Vampires called the Ament, claiming to be direct descendants of the Goddess Isis and her husband Osiris: are wreaking havoc throughout the covens. They are like a plague of locusts devouring and destroying all they come in contact with. Several covens across the globe have been wiped out by the Ament already. As the leader of security operations for my coven I am in charge of making sure that my immortals stay safe.
The council who governs the Immortals; came together for a meeting of the elders, when the rumors of the extermination reached our shores. A ruling was made and it was agreed by the elders that I would be sent to find out if the stories were true, and if they were, I needed to find out why the Ament were so unwavering in their slaughter. It took me two years to track down and discover that this coven had risen out of the desert sands of Egypt like scorpions; and had made it their sole duty to destroy every coven in the world giving them the chance to overcome the world and bring their homeland back to its former glory. I took all of this information back to the council and left them to decide how best to handle this situation.
The oldest vampire on the council, Ramses, gave his verdict on the information presented to him. So, it is under his order that I, Eva, was transported through the time travel machine, known as “Invictus”. My commands state that I must eradicate Isis, as she is led to the Nile for her nightly bathing ceremony. Ramses made it clear that I must execute her before she reaches the Nile. If I do not then I will not be able to kill her at all. For it is in the Nile where Isis reaches her full strength; once she is renewed by the river that was her birthplace, she will know who I am; she will see why I am here. It is immersed in the sapphire waters of the Nile where Isis reads the minds and hearts of her kingdom. If she senses a darker presence she will flee or send one of her guardians to kill me.
The plan was for me to descend upon Isis as she left her dwelling. Once I had her within my grasp I was to rip her head from her body, drain her of her immortal blood and scatter her body across the ancient world. Without all of her body parts together Isis will not be able to be reincarnated. If this happens Isis will be nothing but a myth, a myth that will be lost in history by the time Alexander the great conquers Egypt. So, here I rest veiled in the shadows waiting for my mark to appear. I have been in Egypt six hours now and I have mere minutes to complete this task. I do not fully understand what the means to this end will be, but I have my orders and I never disobey orders.
The room is deeply perfumed with incense; sensual aromas of frankincense and honey cover me like a cloak. The iridescent glow of candles set into the walls: bathe her in golden radiance. She wears a sheer dress of
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