Sekhmet's Curse (Pearl Vampire Chronicles)
“she screamed at me.
“But, but, but I answered every question correctly. I passed every test you threw at me. How is it that I failed?” I sobbed.
“Because, you didn’t figure out why I brought you here, that was the final test, the one that I didn’t tell you about or spell out to you. That was the one that you were supposed to be smart enough to figure out on your own, but you didn’t, you miserable loser. You failed and now you must die.” Her mouth began to open wide. Wide enough th...at I knew that she wasn’t going to bite me or drain me. She was going to swallow me whole. I opened my mouth to scream, and that was when I woke up. I gasped as my eyes shot open. I quickly took in my surroundings as I tried to calm myself down. Matt and Carlos were sleeping soundly on either side of me. ‘Relax, Sarah. It was only a dream,’ I tried to tell myself. But something about it seemed more than that. It felt more real. It felt like a premonition. So, she’s going to give me some tests to pass, but the final test is one that I have to figure out on my own. Fucking marvelous. As they both began to stir next to me, I decided that telling them about the dream was probably not a good idea. Not a good idea at all. But I would tell Bahiti. She might be able to help. And she deserved to know what had happened to Hapshet, her mentor, why his body was never found when he was locked in the tomb with Sekhmet. I shivered as I thought about her consuming him. The terror he must have felt. “That will not happen to me. It can’t,”MoreLess
“But, but, but I answered every question correctly. I passed every test you threw at me. How is it that I failed?” I sobbed.
“Because, you didn’t figure out why I brought you here, that was the final test, the one that I didn’t tell you about or spell out to you. That was the one that you were supposed to be smart enough to figure out on your own, but you didn’t, you miserable loser. You failed and now you must die.” Her mouth began to open wide. Wide enough th...at I knew that she wasn’t going to bite me or drain me. She was going to swallow me whole. I opened my mouth to scream, and that was when I woke up. I gasped as my eyes shot open. I quickly took in my surroundings as I tried to calm myself down. Matt and Carlos were sleeping soundly on either side of me. ‘Relax, Sarah. It was only a dream,’ I tried to tell myself. But something about it seemed more than that. It felt more real. It felt like a premonition. So, she’s going to give me some tests to pass, but the final test is one that I have to figure out on my own. Fucking marvelous. As they both began to stir next to me, I decided that telling them about the dream was probably not a good idea. Not a good idea at all. But I would tell Bahiti. She might be able to help. And she deserved to know what had happened to Hapshet, her mentor, why his body was never found when he was locked in the tomb with Sekhmet. I shivered as I thought about her consuming him. The terror he must have felt. “That will not happen to me. It can’t,”MoreLess
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