She forced her mind back to Nezem-mut and the green Phoenix Egg of Yunu. But, still under the influence of her memories of Merytaten’s death, her noble intentions of using the symbolic object to keep the balance between the two major cults of the Two Lands gave way to thinking of how it could be used for revenge against the priests of Amun who had murdered her gentle sister.
She knew Nezem-mut must have her reasons for seeking out the crystal and keeping it secret once she had found it, as no doubt whoever had originally hidden it in the palace at Akhetaten had had their reasons. Ankhesenamun did not want to become the enemy of Nezem-mut by taking it forcibly, but she did not trust her aunt not to use it for the benefit of the Amun priesthood.
Ankhesenamun visited her aunt, sweeping into
