The children of Amon Ra 1

 "Windy, what is taking you long? You went away for an hour and is that all  the wood you can get?"

  "It is not as easy as to chop some carrots and stir a pot" he glared at Bas, angry for not being appreciated for his hard work

 Luna watched the man for the first time with astonishment. Windy who was still taller than Luna, was squatty man, with long and thin mustache. His face full of cheeks and sweaty, his eyes biddy green little marbles. Over all he is an easy and funny man to look at. He dropped the logs by the fire and sat down besides Luna.

  "The infamous Luna" he darted his gaze to the beautiful woman beside him. It was a very short time to see her to transform from a pale skinny girl, with a dead gaze, slumped shoulder. she looked like a walking corpse. But now, now even though she seems exhausted, the blood is back to her face, calm and somehow elegant. It is miraculous.

He still can't believe their luck. If they weren't spying that bald man, whoever he was, they wouldn't get to Luna and if it wasn't for Bastet's guts after they have watched what the man did, they would have left right away as not lose his trace, at least that is what he would do if he was alone for this job.

"Windy, prepare the sleeping bags and secure the surrounding. Do you remember the spell I told you?" she didn't wait for his answer. She turned to Luna somehow her eyes sympatric. And so he went to do as he was told muttering something under his breath. Even though Luna didn't catch what he said, she is sure as hell Bas didn't miss a single word.

"Have some dinner and let's talk for a while. Do you need anything else? You just say the word."

  Luna shakes her head. What she needs right now is some answers as her mind is filled with billions and billions of question. Even though she got familiar with their strange energy and faces, she still can't warp her mind around how those wings got glued to her back, stars filling each and every space of it.

"Why do I have the wings? Who is Amon Ra?" she couldn't go on more than, with the look Bas is giving her, she shut her mouth, embarrassed.

  "That is alright child, I get how everything is confusing to you, given the events happening so fast in one night…" she handed her a soup with horned bowl. Luna didn't know how Bas got the bowl.

"Amon Ra was the first god. The god that created the universe…" Bas started without introduction and a warning and Luna didn't have any choice but to silently eat her dinner and listen

   "….he had had children once, 7 to be exact. He raised them like they are part of him. A one big family inside a huge palace, a palace at Giza. Humans now calls them pyramids" Bas scoffed.

"And soon when they were of age he told them to go to each corner of the earth, claim a part of it to themselves and rule whatever there is in what they claimed. Whatever there is in their part is theirs and only theirs, all the creatures including the humans were their subjects." She paused choosing her words carefully.

  "…..now nobody knows how the humans were created, even the great Amon Ra was unable to provide the answer. No one know when they got on earth, what they are and how they work. Even to this day the now so called gods are baffled by you creature. Hell the only thing Toth don't know about is you humans" she smiled. Her smile says that she knows something that he didn't know.

"Is this some kind of ancient Egypt stuff? I remember learning about the pyramid of Giza when I was in high school." Luna murmured staring at some distant memory.

 Bas chuckled at this, and how humans always seems to process things. For such a mysterious creatures, their capacity of processing a new information is slower than the demon snail.

"For the reasons unknown, Amon Ra only gave his children only one warning; not to mate with humans, and not to take them as their wives and husbands. He warned them that the offspring of a human and the child of Amon Ra, was nothing but a destruction and chaos."

"But how could he know that, if he doesn't know where the humans came from or what they are?" Luna interrupted, her eyes wide with the astonishing tale.

"No one knows. But the fool ancient gods didn't listen to their father. As their reign prospered in each aspect of the earth; each took the sky, the moon, the land, the water, a bright golden star, the underworld and, the heaven. glorious and worshipped by everything and every creature. Alongside them the humans' also prospered in their own aspect.  They are the subject to the gods, mind you. But as the godd manipulated every condition boasted in the world for their comfort, the humans adopted very quickly compared to other creatures."

"… They became ever more beautiful, finding themselves pearls and shells in the water for jewellery, fine silks and cottons for their garments, grinding different roots to a fine powder to paint their faces and body. And each day they grew more beautiful, they even were considered a divine creatures even the gods adored them, wished them for themselves." Bas assessed Luna form her head to toe, checking if that myth was indeed true. by the looks of it, humans still care for their appearance and beauty even after aeon of years.

"But that is not the only way they amazed the gods, they got multiplied like the grains in the sand, their offspring more stunning and beautiful than their fathers and mothers."

"Soon the gods fell for the human beauty, wanting them for themselves. So breaking the laws of their father, they took the humans as their wives and husbands. Having together an offspring of a demi god, powerful sons and daughters mightier than the gods even."

"When Amon Ra heard what his children did, he vanished into thin air, without saying another word. Nobody knows where he is or his boat which he used to sail the universe with. And like he said the offspring of the gods and the humans were only destruction to the gods. They wiped out every god there is, destroyed the other beyond repair. The flame of their destruction had licked the humans in a bad way. I don't know what it is like for them so I can't say. But that is it for the children of Amon Ra."

 As the crunch of dry sticks under a boot filled the air, abruptly Bas stopped, blinked a few times like she was in a trance for a long time. Windy was looking each of them. Luna not knowing what to say. 'Was she supposed to say something?' she just stared at the crackling fire.

 "How is all this makes me a child of Amon Ra?" Luna asked

 "We didn't reach our destination yet, so we still got some time to tell the tale. Besides Windy won't let me talk for 5 minutes without interrupting" with that she retreated to her prepared sleeping bag.

"Why don't you try to rest your back, you had a very long evening?" Windy asked Luna.

 "No, I would like to sit by the fire a little more." She looked up to him from where she sat "Mind unchain me from this?" she stretched her laced hands towards him.

"No can't do sweetie. Have a good time then, unlike you I need my sleep beauty for tomorrow" with that he too left Luna with her wings and jumbled messed thoughts.