Chapter 4 – Touching the Sky

The Stonemaker halted his weary band in the shade of the rocky escarpment, allowing them too much water from the team’s meagre supplies. It had been a long march from the banks of the Nile, where their boat lay tied up to stout wooden stakes, recently cut and driven deep into the banks of the fertile river.

This was to be the last of their visits to the rising tower is this remote part of Egypt. They had only one evening and two days to complete their work. The leader knew that what lay ahead would have to be forced, but saw in the eyes of his team a determined look that spoke of their understanding of the royal command. Royal, yes, but not from the usual source of the Pharaoh Seti or his vizier – this instruction had come from Seti’s son, the King-in-Rising, Rameses, second…