Page 81 of Sett and his King
I just hoped it worked so I could repay him one day. Repay all of them. All the people I'd betrayed because of Horus.
"Go give that son of a bitch a taste of his own medicine," Frankie said.
"That's the plan," Sett said as he slipped the ring onto his ring finger and put his hand on the small of my back. The mix of his touch and the magic coursing through the jewellery gave me goosebumps.
Goosebumps that made me believe this was going to work.
I would be able to resist Horus's compulsion and kick him all the way into oblivion.
Once and for all.
Drew
"Are you ready?" Sett asked.
The house was starting to become the backdrop to all our deepest conversations today. Thankfully, our relentless search had yielded the results we’d been seaking.
Or at least that was the hope.
There was only one way to find out.
"Don't fail me now." I looked at the ceiling and dared the house, while twirling the ankh in my fingers. I was talking to both of them although in theory we shouldn't need the house to reset time.
In theory, we should be able to save our family, defeat Horus and come back just in time for dinner. Problem was, I sucked at theory. I was a potion witch. I learned by doing.
"Okay. Let's go," Sett grabbed my shoulders and steadied me back to the here and now. To our mission. He finished his statement with a kiss and right there and then, I was ready to take on the world.
I opened the door and walked right out of Horus's house. I was done with the precautions. We needed to act now.
I turned on my heel and I nodded at Sett who kicked the door down, letting us both into Horus's lair as I took in a deep breath and froze time around us.
Horus's prisoners all turned toward the door before they were all trapped in time and we walked right in. The weight of the ankh on my chest made me feel invincible. I didn't know if I was right to feel that way but I did and I was going to use it to drive a knife into Horus's heart if I needed to.
I stormed toward Horus's office and almost took the door off its hinges when I kicked it open. I braced myself for the control. For the manipulation. For the confident grin and the stinking cigar.
I found none.
"He's not here," I said just as Sett walked in right behind me, his weapon in his hands.
He studied the office for a moment before he turned to me and narrowed his eyes.
"It's fine. Let's go get our boys," he said and I followed him back out into the hallway and down the stairs into the basement.
Two guards stood on either side of the door but they didn't flinch as Sett slammed his khopesh down the middle and tore it in two as if it were made of paper.
The basement was dark and smelled of mold and piss, the cool temperature chilling me to the bone.
Two figures stood on the other side of the room chained to the wall, a man stood between them.
Horus.
"Son of a bitch!" I started running toward him before Sett stopped me.
"Don't," he said and my limbs tightened before relaxing into a neutral position. I had completely forgotten that as long as I wore the necklace and he the ring I was his to do as he pleased. Only I knew he would never take advantage of me in the way his brother had. "Notice something?"
I turned from him to Horus and glowered. But Horus didn't react. He didn't speak. He didn't smirk. He was…frozen.
"It worked," I said, but I wasn’t willing to test the theory just yet.
