-------------- Tales of the Raptors – Nahara

With the Freedom spell cast, the arcane glyphs on the bottle quickly faded and swirled away like mists dissipating under the desert sun. A fume of vapors began to issue forth from the mouth of the bottle, spewing out until a full, human sized form had been created before them. The mist coalesced and turned solid, at last becoming an alluring and beautiful woman, with bronzed skin, blonde hair and sky blue eyes. She wore a thin dress, but many layers of veils that floated about her like weightless feathers. On her feet were golden tassels and her arms, wrists, neck and shins were decorated in many golden jewels. She had deep, black makeup around her eyes, in a fashion reserved for the Pharaoh and his wife, or the servants of the Gods. She stood with her eyes downcast, her hands crossed in front of her face.

“I live to serve, mistress. Command me.”

Kami blinked. The genie lowered her hands and assumed a regal pose.

“My name is Nahara beni’Pashan al’Ymir, the Genie of the Bottle. I serve she who freed me from my imprisonment.”

“Then you’re free to leave, aren’t you?”

“I am merely freed to leave the bottle and come to the mortal world. I am bound to the bottle as long as it exists, and to you for your charity until my debt is repaid.”

”Forgive me. I know of you, and your story, ancient Queen. You were the wife of the Pharaoh Nerris al’Helios, over ten thousand years ago. You were imprisoned by your own father, the Pasha of the Djinn, for loving a mortal.”

”These things are all true. I was once a Queen of the First Empire, but that was forgotten ages past. I am now a slave and can do nothing more than serve my master or mistress. I can no longer be called Queen.”

”But I also have an idea of how to free you, Lady Nahara. And this I will do as soon as I find a way.”

Nahara looked sideways at the priestess. She had been teased and lied to many, many times over the ages. She wasn’t at all sure she could or should trust this young human.

”We shall see, mistress. We shall see.”

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