The Midnight Curse by Kayla Maya EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Kayla Maya
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- Genre:Â Mythology
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Hecat
The desert sand scorched the bottom of Hecat’s feet, but she trudged on
without complaint. Her skin was slick with sweat, and her clothes
clung to her in the most awkward of places, but none of that mattered.
What mattered was getting back to her father. She knew she shouldn’t
have left him for as long as she had, but he’d demanded of her to fetch
some water from the nearby tributary.
Normally, Hecat would have used her heka to create water, but today
she was exhausted.
After spending the last several days running errands for her father,
among her priestess training duties, she barely had any time to rest, let
alone use her heka. In turn, Hecat’s mood was left terrifyingly sour.
She paused atop a sand dune, hand over her forehead to get a better
view of the landscape. Off in the distance, she could faintly view the capital
city of Akhsais. The gleaming palace of the Pharaohs rose high above the
sand, the sun’s rays glittering off the sun-bleached stone.
The palace itself was a mixture of outbuildings and towers. The
building was always changing, but the one remaining constant was the
amount of people that bustled in and out each day.
The rest of the city was composed of adobes, beautifully crafted homes
made of mud and brick, with mats that covered the windows and doors to
keep the insects and sun at bay. The sparkling blue Qadim River slithered
through the middle of the city, keeping everything and everyone quenched.
Hecat snorted, placing her bucket on the sand beside her before
settling in the hot grains.
Her father was a stickler for their water supply. He said the mouths of
the people tainted the water from the Qadim River and that he and Hecat
needed pure, unfiltered water. It was why he often sent her to the Lone
Oasis right outside the city.
The breeze was slightly cool, sending a shiver over Hecat’s body. It
was the beginning of the New Cycle, a time where life should be celebrated.
For Hecat, however, it was a day she had been dreading for months.
Eight months ago, her father had decided that it was time for Hecat to
marry—which she was fine with in all honesty.
What would it be like to love? To become a wife and mother? At first,
the prospect scared her, but over time, she had begun to fantasize about the
possibilities of this new life. She craved a love like her mother and father
had, long before the disease took her from them nearly eight years prior. It
was a disease that was shrouded in mystery, one that not even the most
experienced healers could identify.
Hecat had been fourteen the day her mother had passed, and that loss
turned her father into a new man, shrouding him in darkness.
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