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| "The Princess Who Lost her Scroll of the Dead" Amazon Kindle for young readers |
NEFERA was quite enjoying the
attention.
The death of a king’s daughter was a big occasion and the royal
procession of the coffin through the mud brick city to the tomb in the desert
hills was a spectacle not to be missed.
Especially this one. It was
all for her.
She stood mingling with bystanders who lined the way of the procession
as it made its way through the shimmering city before crossing the river, yet
nobody in the crowd seemed able to see her among them.
“She was just a girl,” a woman in the crowd said,
wiping her nose as she sobbed.
‘Am I a ghost?’ Nefera wondered, recalling the
Egyptians’ belief in an invisible double known as the Ka. ‘It does not seem so. I feel as alive as ever.’
At the front of the procession walked a number of solemn men carrying
flowers and trays of offerings of oil, perfumes, cakes, bread, haunches of
beef, ducks and vegetables and more. Others carried clothes, tables, chairs,
jewellery, cosmetic boxes and other tomb goods.
‘I see my golden lion couch coming,’ Nefera
thought. ‘And my golden sandals and caskets of jewellery and, most important of
all, the mummy of my darling cat, Miu.’
For young readers (Published as Roy Pond)
