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dazzling white; the cloth clings to her curves as if it were wet. The curls of her hair drift gently in a breeze that wafts through the chamber. Her hair is so thick, that one can only see her crown if the light hits it at just the right angle. Her skin is cinnamon and in her essence, is the beauty of life. I feel drunk standing so near to her in this cavern buried beneath the city. The walls are irregular made by natures own hand the floors cool and malleable with sand, so that every move of her foot is like the whisper of a snake sliding through grass.
    I was summoned here by a messenger who said that Isis needed me without delay. Upon my arrival she told me she had a task for me. Now I sit here awaiting her instructions. I am most eager to do her bidding, she has not called on me for an age and I have missed the silky enticing sound of her voice it has been to long since we last met. Finally, I believe she is ready to speak. She bows one last time to the altar and turns to me her smooth face grim and shadowed with worry.
    “Please stand Kenji; you have no need to bow before me anymore.” I stand up when she says this so that we can talk face to face. “I have need of you Kenji now more than ever.”  Isis wrings her hands together as she says this last thing. “Just tell me what you need Isis.” I say softly to her. She finally sighs and lifts her large eyes to mine “Kenji, someone is here to murder me, I have had word from Hamnet, my spy from the western quarters of the city. He is sure that she is not only an assassin but also a vampire.”  “This is nothing new Isis they have sent assassins to kill you before and none has ever succeeded, so why are you so worried about this one?”  Isis reached into the folds of her gown and produced two gold coins; “This is why I am worried.” She said as she handed me the coins. As I inspected them she began pacing around the small chamber and speaking her fears aloud. “These are no regular coins Kenji; these coins belong to one old and powerful. It is this person who seeks to destroy me now.”  I held the one coin up into the light of one lantern and the read the name written on its shining surface.”Ramses.” I spoke aloud. “What does Ramses have to do with you? I thought he had been banished to the forbidden lands and then killed by your brother Osiris?” I said as I handed the coins back to her. “This is what I thought as well, but only Ramses would be in possession of these coins after all these years. He is not dead Kenji, and he has sent someone to exact his revenge at last.” She said this last with a sadness that I’d never heard from her before. “I thought his fight was with Osiris, not you Isis, what does he have against you? What did you have to do with his demise?”
     
     Isis came near me and pulled me to sit with her on the ground. “Ramses and I were lovers when he was a mortal; but our love affair was discovered by servants loyal to Osiris.
    When my brother found out about our affair he ordered that Ramses be killed immediately. When I told Ramses of his impending death I also offered him a solution; I told him I could turn him into an immortal like me, so that if anyone tried to kill him he would never die.”  Here she lowered her voice to a whisper. “I kept my promise to make him immortal, but I changed the spell and turned him into a vampire instead. When the spell was complete and he woke, he knew at once what I had done.”  “ I knew that if I made him a vampire instead of a true immortal he would be furious with me. But I also knew that if I made him completely immortal like the gods, then he would never leave my brother alone, I knew he would hunt Osiris to the ends of the earth, for trying to have him killed.”  “ But why did you not tell him this and give him the option of being a vampire, why lie to him?” I asked. “I lied because, to be an immortal, to be blessed with the gift of long life and all the powers of