10/26/2025, 11:00 PM
Satriya had set up their camp well away from the desert, but here in dense sun the corpses of stray travellers had begun to rot. Daylight was too vigorous even for carrion scavengers, and the results were gusts too acrid to inhale.
Jodai returned, a perimeter and kingdom still his to guard while Pharaoh ruled from a hundred miles west. Though he was exhausted from the journey’s run, heat forbid his rest. An image of the sun god filled his mind, and he was harried by rank, formless flesh.
First the wave that silenced Hapi, and now this terrible malignancy which destroyed man and prey. Heavy padding brought him towards a deafening of falls. For once, his jaded mind forgot itself and prayed.
Let this be the last and most awful manifestation of Ra.
Jodai returned, a perimeter and kingdom still his to guard while Pharaoh ruled from a hundred miles west. Though he was exhausted from the journey’s run, heat forbid his rest. An image of the sun god filled his mind, and he was harried by rank, formless flesh.
First the wave that silenced Hapi, and now this terrible malignancy which destroyed man and prey. Heavy padding brought him towards a deafening of falls. For once, his jaded mind forgot itself and prayed.
Let this be the last and most awful manifestation of Ra.