Serpent's Kiss

“How you doing?” he said to Python. “You old crazy, dead whack-job, you. Long time no see.”

He had already taken her soul on an impossible moonlit flight. She might as well give him her shredded, useless heart too, since she hadn’t been using it all these years

But this much she could know. In both versions of her past she had been born into poverty and taken as a slave. And in both versions she had reached for immortality and had become a Queen.

Khepri,” he said. His voice was soft. “You were never at any time in your life forgettable