Chief Lector Iscandar

*cough* *cough* "urgh sand why is there sand in my mouth I think there is even some in my clothes what demon created this thing sand manages to get everywhere." I cough and groan as I fall out of the portal I got shoved through moments earlier now covered in sand.

As I'm trying to get my bearings and figure out why exactly they decided to bind me in ropes I feel the rope on my back get grabbed before I find myself being dragged across tiled flooring.

"Soooo, why am I tied up I'll have you know I'm only 11 so this could be really bad for you if someone sees," I call to the person dragging me.

"Shut it godling!" the person dragging me growled as they continued walking.

Deciding against riling up my captor even more I just hung from his grip looking around at the roof and walls of the place we were, as we moved further into the building we passed groups of people who looked at me confused I mean I was tied up and being dragged somewhere with 4 other people following me so it was understandable.

Going further into the building we entered a hallway and on the sides, I noticed murals depicting different events from Egyptian myth and history when I noticed something and had to ask about it, "wait did that mural just move rather than continue telling the story further down?"

"Yes and if you keep looking at them you will die so feel free to stare all you want it will save us time and energy." the person dragging me growled at me though they managed to peke my curiosity.

Curious about what they meant I continued to look at one of the murals and started to feel myself getting dragged into it.

In the mural I was standing without a body looking at a valley in Egypt, in the valley I saw a large lioness moving towards jars of what looked like blood but something told me it wasn't blood, the lioness approached the jars and started to drink deeply from them slowly looking more and more drunk.

It was when I saw the lioness getting drunk that I realised what I was looking at I was witnessing Sekemet getting drunk on fake blood before being subdued by Ra.

After the lioness I now realise is Sekemet fell asleep once she had finished drinking a man appeared near her and rested his hand on her before Sekement slowly separated into two beings one of which looked like a cat and the other looked like a cow.

This I realised was the birth of Bast and Hathor or at least one of the births of Bast as she was also created by Ra without Sekemet in a different story.

As I was observing the ending of this event I started to feel off before I found myself being thrown onto the ground back in the hallway with the murals. In front of me, there was a man who looked like he could be my great grandfather with the age he was showing sitting on the steps to a throne.

Struggling for a bit to sit up and appear more respectful I apologised to him while nodding towards my bindings "sorry I am unable to greet you properly as you can see I am a little restricted in my movement."

Hearing this the people around me seemed annoyed but the man in front of me smiled "that is fine if anything I should be the one apologising it seems these people thought you were what we call a godling or someone who has been possessed by a god."

Hearing this I smile "oh no it's not a major problem I can understand how that misunderstanding could come about seeing as I helped handle a god that they were struggling with unfortunately I used the last of my greek fire in that fight so I won't be able to do the same feat till I get some more, don't get me wrong though I can still fight if you want me to."

My statement seemed to catch everyone in the room by surprise before the older man in front of me asked "how do you have greek fire the recipe for that was lost to most about 1000 years ago?"

To this, I smiled "ah well you see I came across a box about 6 months ago it had the recipe for a variant of greek fire in it the variant was designed to be coated on a weapon then used in a fight."

The man in front of me smiled at my answer then said "well that answers that I must apologise once again for the manner in which you were brought here, as an apology I would like to offer you the opportunity to learn from us in the ways of Egyptian magic. Also, I realise we have not introduced ourselves I am Iscandar the Chief Lector and head of the first Nome."

Hearing this I nodded to him "my apologies as well for not introducing myself earlier I am Nightingale though most shorten it to Night I am someone who likes to wander from place to place exploring. I would be honoured to learn magic here the stories of it have always interested me."

Iscandar smiled at me before saying "wonderful, Zia would you be so kind as to show young Night around and to a room, she can use and also give her an introduction to magic."

A girl walked up beside where I was sitting and nodded her head "of course Chief Lector"

The girl Zia then turned to me and removed the rope "come follow me I'll show you around and to your room."