Wisdom's Daughter Chapter 5 - The Summons

In which the narrator confides a grievous secret to her master Noot, who offers solace with reflections on the inner battles between good and evil and the nature of fate, before she travels abroad to study various peoples and their faiths, growing in spiritual power as a high priestess and oracle. At the temple of Isis in Memphis, amid rising wars and political intrigues, she receives a summons from Pharaoh Nectanebes to prognosticate the future of an impending conflict, while guarding her secrets and facing forebodings tied to a mysterious man known to her.