The radiation scan - at a dose lethal for
the living - blasted through her linen windings. It was like a penetration of
sunlight warming the bones after the ache of the desert night.
The CT machine hummed. A spinning cylinder
curved around the mummy’s head like a night sky arching over Egypt.
The sand-dry cells of the body, spread out
in an undulating landscape on the CT tray, stirred in a sudden breath.
Life!
Resurgent life! It eddied, thickened, mounted in force, blowing, gusting, then
blasting through the mummy like a desert sand storm...
AMAZON
THE EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY MURDERS
