The Curse in Her Blood

Chapter 26

Robin

"Open up, open up, open up!"

If you can't tell, I'm panicking. I've run the whole way here, I had to threaten a golden palace servant to tell me where her room was in the first place, and now I'm wailing against the door and shouting like a crazy person.

Also, if the way the servants were jumping out of my way and I stormed over here, I apparently looked scarier then I thought. Sarah always said I looked like a red chipmunk when I was angry. She never took me seriously at all. She never took much seriously in her life though.

I keep on pounding and shouting until the door flies open and since I was putting so much effort into the banging I had been doing, I was off balance when it did. That meant that the door opened and I fell right into the room, landed right on my face.

Yeah what an entrance.

I look up and Hathor is sitting at a giant golden vanity, I can see in the reflection of the mirror that she is smiling. Well, at least she's entertained, right?

"Couldn't just open the door like normal huh?" I ask once I pick myself up off of the ground.

Hathor is still smiling at me. And she looks flawlessly pretty too. She's in this plain white shift of a dress, all flowing chiffon. Her skin is still that aquamarine and it seems to be sparkling, which means the Seti Heb is working for her.

"Whatever seems to have you agitated this time?" she asks me which means she doesn't know Set's been cursed again and it's up to me to fix him.

Again.

That is a lot of responsibility. And I don't like it at all!

"Okay. Look. Set has been curse again..."

"Yes I know, I cursed him."

My mouth drops in shock, because I wasn't expecting that. I knew she supposedly had the cure, but I didn't think she had the cure because she was the one who cursed him.

"You know... I thought you were nice, but you are just like Osiris!" I cry. "Why would you do that? What did he ever do to you?"

"Oh nothing," Hathor says with a wave of her hand. "Out of all the others I'm probably the closest that man has to a friend if he were to ever try letting someone in."

I stare at her blankly because honestly I'm not impressed. "Something you've made evidently clear... by cursing him!"

At this Hathor laughs at me. "My, my, you sound so upset. Tell me, what about this situation upsets you?"

"I unno, maybe it's because I don't like the way his family treats him. Or maybe I don't like that people keep hurting him, or turning him into things he isn't. Maybe because he doesn't deserve to be treated like he's the bad guy all the time!"

Hathor's eyes have narrowed at me for some reason, like she wasn't expecting that response from me.

"You're not aware that this is a test?"

I falter. Yeah, I sort of figured this was a test, Set had said this was a test, but it didn't feel so much like a test and more like a personal attack on him. I should have listened. We were doing those and we had asked for them to be on a faster timeline. And it wasn't like the tester would announce the test, right?

"That makes more sense," I whisper. "Sorry. I just... this is going to sound terrible, but he looks horrible. And... I screamed in his face, and I feel bad cause it's not his fault..."

"So you saw him then."

"What... I mean... yeah? How else would I know he's cursed?"

"So you saw him and you stayed and talked to him."