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    The Scribe
    The Scribe
    The Scribe
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    The Scribe

    By Robin Ballard

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    ‘The Scribe’ is a collection of twelve letters included in ‘The Archivist’ and is part of 'The Lost Spells of Egypt' series.
    Sepedet, a would be scribe, has kept secrets from her son, Ahmose. Now that he has been summoned to the temple of Amun in Thebes to begin his studies, she decides to tell him about the tragic events of the past, including the demise of her father, an archivist. She writes Ahmose a letter, one for every month of his absence. Sepedet believes that her letters will help her son find his rightful place in Thebes, but what she does not know, is that she is sending him into danger.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobin Ballard
    Release dateJun 26, 2012
    ISBN9781476221175
    The Scribe
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    Robin Ballard

    Robin Ballard was born in Los Angeles, California. A graduate of The Cooper Union School of Art, she currently lives in Switzerland. She has written and illustrated many books for children including "Zeig mir ein Tier", her first picture book in German. After an inspiring trip to Egypt, she wrote "The Archivist", a young-adult novel set in ancient times. "The Sage" followed as did "The Singer", the final book in her Lost Spells of Egypt series.

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      The Scribe - Robin Ballard

      The Lost Spells of Egypt

      The Scribe

      Letters from The Archivist

      by Robin Ballard

      Copyright 2012 Robin Ballard

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

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      Also by Robin Ballard

      The Archivist, Book One

      The Sage, Book Two

      The Singer, Book Three

      Table of Contents

      Prologue

      Month of the Small Fire

      Month of Renenutet

      Month of Khonsu

      Month of Khenet

      Month of Opet

      Month of Ra-Horakhty

      Month of the One Who Tips the Scales

      Month of Ptah

      Month of Hathor

      Month of Sekhmet

      Month of Min

      Month of the Great Fire

      Bibliography

      Prologue

      Sepedet stands on the shores of the Nile. Behind her are the mud-brick houses of a town, where the smoke of cooking fires slowly rises into a pale morning sky. The town is of little commercial consequence, but a few merchants’ vessels were tied to the docks. Sepedet looks to one ship in particular. Its deck is loaded with goods, and between the bales of produce and fragrant wood stand a boy and an old woman.

      The mooring lines are slipped from the posts and the ship’s crew paddle out into the river’s deep water. Sepedet calls out from the shore and waves goodbye to her son on board. Ahmose does not smile; he does not say a word in return. The boat drifts backwards but soon its square sail is hoisted and filled with the northern breeze. The captain at the steering oar tacks against the current. Sepedet watches the ship grow small along the wide blue river. She tries to discern it among the other boats, but soon it is gone.

      Sepedet becomes aware of her surroundings and the voices of people passing by. She leaves the docks and works her way through the crowd. Ahmose’s trip had depleted her meager resources. But then she too, had bought a small roll of papyrus not long ago, and this had set her back a bit. No, she would not be taking the ferry home. She would walk.

      The way is far and the sun grows strong. By midday Sepedet veers from the open road. Cutting across a freshly plowed field, she turns into a date palm grove. Its shade is welcoming, and in the distance, just past a little house, she sees her husband and older son leading the cow down to the river. Sepedet is oddly relieved that they do not see her. But her return has not gone unnoticed. Her cat, Heboni, trots toward her. Sepedet sits on her haunches and the black cat rubs itself along her hands, flicking its tail. Since Sepedet arrived in the countryside, the cat has been her constant companion. It was Heboni, who had found the archivist’s body. Her father had been murdered while reading documents in his study ...

      Sepedet sighs. Tears well up in her eyes. She was not expecting to feel this way. When she had woken that morning she had been full of excitement; Ahmose was going to Thebes. It was what she had always wanted. It was what she had been

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