Epilogue
Kevinkare, Brianamun, and Aneski met up with Alexhotep, Howymose, and Nickathor at Nakht’s workshop where he was already preparing Nefret’s corpse for mummification.
As soon as Nickathor laid eyes on Aneski, he embraced her passionately. She didn’t resist. The ordeal had been enough to open both their eyes to their true attraction to each other.
Kevinkare and Brianamun said their final goodbye to Nefret. Each privately in the small room where her body was waiting to join her parents in the family tomb. Each exited the room with tears streaming down their face.
Word reached them that at the sight of SmenkhKevinkare’s dead body, Akhenaten had keeled over. The official report: heart failure. Young Tutankhaten was proclaimed heir, and he was betrothed to Ankhsenpaaten, a young girl with influential court officials.
Brianamun stood at the window in the back of Nakht’s house. His duty to Amun was complete. Now he all he had to do was make sure Amun was reinstated as chief god, and then he could retire to Thebes, serving the god to the end of his days.
The sky had cleared miraculously. The sun reappeared, looking somewhat different on the horizon.
“It is the dawn of a new era,” Alexhotep said from behind Brianamun.
“A new king... a new horizon,” Brianamun murmured.
Alexhotep smiled wryly, slapping his friend on the back, and led him away from the window to join the others as they planned what in the world they’d do in their future.