A jagged rift, dark and pulsating with an eerie energy, tore across the boundless expanse of a desert that defied reality. The sky above was a void, colorless and endless, with no sun to light the golden sands stretching infinitely in every direction. This was no place on Earth—no familiar wind, no scent of life, only the hollow whisper of a foreign dimension that seemed suspended in time.
Nathan stood still, his boots half-sunk into the sand, the warm grains clinging to his feet as if trying to pull him down. Moments ago, he had been engulfed by a blinding light—drawn alongside Sekhmet, the fierce Egyptian war goddess—and now found himself face-to-face with another divine being. The oppressive silence was broken only by the soft hum of power emanating from the figure standing ahead.
She was a vision of divine regality.
