CHAPTER 4
The Window of AppearancesHe was in a city — in a street where a throng of people pushed and crowded around him. All were facing one way, steadily making their way towards the east where a bridge spanned the street from one building to another. It was a city he knew well although he had never seen anything like it in his life as Jack Wilson. The buildings were low and angular. Flags fluttered from tall flag poles in front of angular stone pylons, while gigantic statues guarded the gates of the temples — each one the divine pharaoh himself.
Over all the sun was blazing down, the one round object in all these straight lines.
As the crowd pushed him near the bridge, the small figures that were standing on it became clearer. The royal family ... Akhenaten, the Son of the Sun, Nefe-
