Death comes as an ice pick piercing through ones heart. The first wave of a biting chill bludgeons warmth from the body. For others like me the cold that follows could freeze the depths of hell, and rigidify the sultry firmaments. This insufferable temperature occurs from the loss of the soul and it spreads through the mind hungering for a consolation.
I called for the asp as Antony and I awaited the arrival in silence. He quivered uncontrollably at the thought of suicide, yet I remained calm and unmoved. Antony jerked as the doors to the chamber opened. For the first time I shivered as a chilling gust of freezing air washed through the desert heat that engulfed the palace. I watched as a man with the snake almost glided through the chamber, and locked the dark depths of his eyes with my own. He held the deadly snake in his bare hands as he bowed down before me, unceremoniously fixing his fierce gaze at me. Antony neglected to notice the man and stared through me contemplating his death. He hesitated for a long period of time and only then did he say it was time. The dark, chilling man averted his gaze from me to look towards Antony and with out a word raised the snakes fangs to Antony's wrist. Antony turned to say goodbye to me as the man unleashed the snake and I watched as my lover slowly died shaking and terrified. My eyes shot up to the man as Antony took his last breath and became limp on the floor.
"Are you afraid to die?" The man asked me in a low bruiting voice. His voice made me alarmed and I became afraid to speak.
"I am a god, and I shall live for eternity. I am Isis. Death is but a mere sleep before I awake as a god amongst the gods." The man began to stand in front of me and I saw him now as something of evil. He was tall and pale. He resembled the Romans more than my people. He was muscular as if he were a slave yet as refined as a king. His dark features and teeth reminded me more of the snake he was holding than a human.
"You are not a god, you are nothing but a mortal queen, you will die and rot as all men do," he said as he held the snake to his face and then let it drop to the floor. My heart lurched as it slithered towards me yet my body remained calm.
"I am a god," he said slowly in a low, calm yet thundering voice. I froze as the snake came to a stop in front of me and lifted its long body as if to bite me. Suddenly it slithered away as the man began to walk towards me.
"I like to know the names of men before I have them killed." I said unmoved
"Lamian, but you will not kill me, you could not kill me," he said moving unbearably close to me that I was forced to lean backwards against the marble steps. He was handsome in a erotic masculine way, and it made my heart beat faster.