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“Which is why we have to find them before she finds out.”
“There are six of them! How do we hide six gods of ancient Egypt as they wander around causing chaos as they try to fulfill the requirements of their own parts of the prophecy?” Azi asked.
“More than six,” Abasi clarified.
“Oh, dear god,” she whispered.
“Fear not, my dear Azi, I am here. I will fix things,” Ra said.
“You can do no more than I can. You’re human, Ra,” she reminded him.
“I will still try. Neith did make it seem that I might regain my powers. At least some of them.”
“Because that’s going to make things easier,” Azi muttered.
“It will! And if it doesn’t happen, we have each other. All will be well,” Ra said, recovering his composure.
“I suppose all we can do is try,” Azi said. “I can’t in good faith leave them out there in the same situation you arrived in. We have to help them.”
“We have to help them just as you helped me. If only because I refuse to give you and our life together up.” Ra growled thinking of the situation they’d be thrust in by the gods making a mass evacuation of the Temple of Ra. “They are still selfish, uncaring, impatient, spiteful gods that I should have left mere thoughts, rather than giving them life!” Ra said, growing more and more irritated. “Do you see the difficulties they are causing me?”
“Did you mean to say ‘causing us’?” Azi asked.
“I said us! You know I said us!” Ra insisted.
“Yes, this will be fun. Abasi, you get to help this time, out in the open where I can witness it first hand. Come on in,” Azi said.
Abasi stepped inside and closed the door behind himself, smothering the hint of a smile he couldn’t keep from his face at the knowledge that he’d won the bet between himself and Neith. He’d had no doubt that Ra would never desert the rest of the gods he’d created, no matter how happy he was in his mortality with Azi. He’d not hesitated at all to locate them and help them find the answers to their own parts of the prophecy. He had truly become a man of integrity — for the most part.
The End
