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TURN TWELVE
5th Chains, 2nd PAC
>AE
The walking-corpse-men of the north have brought them war for their hospitality, so Amun shall deliver them death. Tin for bronze, a forge to smelt the metal, lumber to fuel the furnaces, and grain for the bellies of the men. The Irreechi, though this name is not known to them, will taste the might of Amun and their women will know the misery their men have wrought.
The army of Lord Toraten receives new orders, they are to move from the Carnite border to the Temple of the Passage. The army of Lord Vitalsin is charged with the continuance of their mission, strike at the walking-corpse-men and keep striking until they walk no more.
>AH
Bodies from each race are laid on slabs of stone for dissection, an array of copper tools devised just for the observations. First, as is right, is the Ahmosi, a benchmark to see the failings of lesser flesh against. Tight muscle tissue with little fat, prodded pulled & sliced. Next is the Cyclops, brought after a fight over a flock turned bitter amongst themselves, somewhat disappointingly the results are much the same, save excess fat and the obvious ocular peculiarity in the Unoku. The Tarn is next, practically half the height of the glorious divine form, and nothing but skin & bone, but it is all the Tarn would sell them. The number of muscles, bones, tendons and so on are the same, though unsurprisingly much less developed. Last is the Parhuami, whose upper body is halfway between the brawn of the Ahmosi and the frailty of the Tarn. However as the chest is opened there is an additional strange organ, like a second bladder filled with air, and when legs are dissected they find something even more remarkable for inside them are fish scales in long rows. Finally, the skull is opened on each, showing the brain in the Ahmosi to be both larger and covered with many more blood vessels as compared to the rest. The next largest is surprisingly this time the Tarnsman's, then the Parhuami, and finally despite their huge heads, the Cyclops.
Symmetry is the fingerprint of the natural order, both bilateral and the related "equal but opposite". Included in the former is the body & the parts therein, the latter includes the sexes & the dynamics of nature, predator & prey for instance. Equal to symmetry is hierarchy. The fly eats filth, the bird eats the fly, the cat eats the bird. The slave works for the master, the master for his lord, the lord for the Pharakhan. Some among the scholars, no less buff than their brothers, theorise it is true also of nations.
The army returns from the sands, headed by the black-soaked Pharakhan, who after feasts & baths are sent to the sea along with the home guard. Perhaps in the blood of the beast, or the shifting of the shadows of the mountains, Anemhotep senses danger from the water.
