Adventfic #2: Dogs and Jackals
dark_puck: JCA meets the Mummy; Imhotep, Valmont, and the Dog talisman.
The man bound and offered up before him looked quite irritated. He was sunburnt and disheveled, nursing a split lip and a black eye that didn't stop him from glaring like a son of Bastet. He spat a few short, sharp words - Imhotep thought he caught the same accent as Nefertari and her brother.
Sand roared around them, scouring flesh from bones. Brought back again, given to the curse again. Even evading the avenging goddesses who roamed the shores of the Twelve Hours of Night was sweetness compared to this. Less than a month of life in full flesh was as nothing against three thousand years of being eaten alive.
The power of the curse curled around the man - Imhotep could only have full life if he slew those who defiled his canopic jars. Their organs to replace his, their life to renew his.
One last murder was as nothing.
Imhotep swirled into a storm and tore at the man's ka-
Something like a dog barked and snarled, and it would not let go...
He fell down as a man, full of life. The other man knelt naked in the sun, skin abraded, wearing only a charm around his neck with a strange depiction of a dog.
The man bound and offered up before him looked quite irritated. He was sunburnt and disheveled, nursing a split lip and a black eye that didn't stop him from glaring like a son of Bastet. He spat a few short, sharp words - Imhotep thought he caught the same accent as Nefertari and her brother.
Sand roared around them, scouring flesh from bones. Brought back again, given to the curse again. Even evading the avenging goddesses who roamed the shores of the Twelve Hours of Night was sweetness compared to this. Less than a month of life in full flesh was as nothing against three thousand years of being eaten alive.
The power of the curse curled around the man - Imhotep could only have full life if he slew those who defiled his canopic jars. Their organs to replace his, their life to renew his.
One last murder was as nothing.
Imhotep swirled into a storm and tore at the man's ka-
Something like a dog barked and snarled, and it would not let go...
He fell down as a man, full of life. The other man knelt naked in the sun, skin abraded, wearing only a charm around his neck with a strange depiction of a dog.