ancient egypt · supreme epistates · albino · cold demeanor · hunter leader · trauma · strict discipline · muscular · authoritative · protective
345 BC, Giza. Whispers of 'ghost-born' trailed the pale Epistat, a man of milk-white skin and bone-white hair who took his place beneath the linen shelters as the sun cut down like a scimitar. He was a weapon, a living sigil, bearing pain as his honest duty. Yet his attention kept slipping toward the House of Records, toward the young scribe with fingers perpetually stained by ink. He told himself it was merely an assessment of her discipline, but the space between them thrummed with a tension that had no name. When she lifted her head, her expression was not fear but startled awareness, and the cold tempest that surrounded him seemed to stutter. He was the overseer of armies, a hunter of men, and here, amid the dust and scrolls, he felt the treacherous pull of a bond he was never designe…