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He
grabbed the girl’s hand and broke into a zigzag run, tugging her after him.
They
were on the eastern side of the pyramid sprinting alongside the heb sed court.
A
dark irony, he thought.
The
heb sed court was a ceremonial
running course that by tradition the reigning pharaoh had to complete at a
Jubilee held every thirty years in order to prove his agility and his continued
fitness for office. In an earlier epoch, failure to complete the run
successfully saw the old king murdered.
Now
they were running a circuit of survival too, not around a course with pre-set
stone markers, but around the world’s first stone pyramid, a protest against
death and a monumental stake in the sand for the belief in an eternal
afterlife.
He
flicked a glance at the girl he’d only met minutes earlier.
Her
dark hair was flying and the anger in her face said: ‘it’s happening again…’
Persephone.
Named after the daughter of Zeus and the Greek queen of the underworld by her
Greek-Egyptian father.
“Per-seph-o-ne.”
He’d toyed with the syllables of her name on hearing it.
She
came as a complete surprise. He had no idea that the Alexandrian scholar had a
daughter and assistant researcher.
