(A.N) This story is my first composition—ever!— and it is not short. It has a plot and purpose that I hope you all enjoy. This is the first part of coming stories in a series called Touched By Divinity.
Please remember that this story was written purely for pleasure and is in no way meant to insult Anyone.
Thank you for reading!!
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Egypt, 2344 BC
When Isali listened to the old words, the stories, the myths of her gods, she listened most carefully to those pertaining to her favorite god; Ra. For one reason entirely... she was in love with him.
Not the idea of him. Not the fact that he was the most lethal, most feared, and adored god of her people. Not the spirit and belief of him.
Isali loved Him. Ra, the god, the man.
Isali had first discovered the god's existence by accident. She'd been trailing along the Nile several hundred miles away from the Pharaoh Amos's egypt when she'd noticed something odd reflecting off of the surface of water. Something that caused her to glance up.
And what she'd found made her gasp.
The sun, once a ball of blazing oranges and yellows had turned a color she'd only seen in the clouds. And the clouds had darkened as if a tempest was imminent. Fazed because it'd been like nothing she'd ever seen before, Isali—for a reason only known to her—kept her gaze locked with the ivory sun. She sucked in a breath of air when that sun exploded in a burst of sparkling lights. She blinked and missed the something that fell to the earth.
"Do you yearn for me often, Mortal?"
Isali jumped at the sound of that voice. It came from behind. She spun around—and slammed into a hard wall of muscle. Bare muscle, she realized when she brought her hands up to push at it. They landed on hot, hot skin. Her eyes burst open.
"Well?" The undeniably male—with a god-like build—seemed unfazed by the closeness of their bodies, her hands on his rigid chest. His eyes, much like her own, chocolate and milk, darkened with lust. A smile appeared on his face and his own hands landed on her waist, gripping. "I've seen your dreams of desires and pleasure."
Isali knew exactly which dreams he was referring to. The question in her mind however... "Who are you?" She stepped away from him, smoothed her damp hands down her tunic covered knees.
"You do not recognize the Sun God you claim to love?" His dark brows pulled together at the center. "Perhaps you are disillusioned by my appearance, no?"
Isali felt the air lock in her chest, her heart flutter, felt as though she was a child who'd just received her very first nameday gift. "Ra," she whispered in disbelief. "The depictions were wrong." His head was nothing like that of a hawk and from what she could see, he was man in every way possible.
Once again she felt the heat of his hands on her waist and then she was standing so close to him there was no room between for air. "Very wrong, Isali."
"How do you know my name?"