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Chapter 16

“By night I sail up the river to keep the feast of him that is dead,

to embrace the Aged God,

and to guard the earth.”

-Egyptian Book of the Dead

“She’s alive.”

On the narrow shore beside the newly flowing river, beneath the towering walls of the chasm, Annyka was kneeling over Ashidi’s body. She had the fingers of one hand pressed into Ashidi’s wrist and the other hand resting on Ashidi’s forehead. As she spoke these words she glanced up at Nathaniel.

He felt instant...

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