Chapter Two – An Agony of Sunset

(introduction follows the text)

Seven Years Later

Far below, Rameses was angry; so angry that Lord Menascare could hear the merciless tones in the young voice that would soon be the controlling instrument of the Egyptian 19^th Dynasty. The whole of Egypt would tremble when that voice was raised – but they would love him, too. The young warrior, soon to be made King, would be adored by his subjects. The continuity of the great black land of Kemet would be assured, as the power passed from the dying Seti to his second son.

Menascare wondered how many more days Seti would linger? Would they get there in time? Rameses, the young King-in-Rising, seemed strangely unmoved by the idea that he might not be present for his father’s passing.

Rameses’ warship – The Beak of Horus, was at anchor just off the landing…