Liberation (a board for Senet)

Глава 1Silence and darkness. Those are two powerful ideas to begin a story with. Or to end it.They speak to us through the echoes of a forgotten eternity we all came from, and through the premonitions of an unknown one we’ll all depart to. They are the default state of matter, they need to be actively broken to stop being, disturbed by light, by sound, by the energy of life. Any life is that: the disturbance, the unrest, the movement. A flickering of energy, a pursuit of light and sound.Life is a desire.I’m laid down on my left side on a marble plate at the foot of the sarcophagus in the burial chamber of my husband-father Beqarah, also known as the shekh or Pharaoh of our people, nebtaui. He’d been preparing this tomb almost all of his life, since he raised to the throne at the same age I am now: seventeen.For thirty years since then the mountain was slowly turned into a pyramid: its s…