House of Abasi Aarun, Luxor, City of Thebes, Upper Egypt. 1st Month Of Growth, Sf-Bdt. Zahra stared at Panya in shock while Mintaka’s expression crumpled. But then, she easily adjusted to everything Panya said and did. For days on end Zahra had been frustrated, angry and exhausted. Nothing good was even coming her way. She could not remember the last time she was genuinely happy and thought that perhaps her happiness relied solely on her family home for she was certainly miserable in The Royal Palace. Zahra had been publicly humiliated by the King, almost tossed into fiery oil to die and had gone missing for months on end. After everything bad that happened to her this was what Panya had the audacity to say? “I am glad,” Zahra said, trailing her gaze from the ground to Panya’s fa

