Ancient Egypt

Sersi closed her eyes and focused. The spell she was about to perform required much more concentration than giving someone a telekinetic handjob. Sam could see reality around them ripple. His apartment cracked open like shattering glass. Even solid objects like the fridge or the shelves fragmented and splintered into two- dimensional shards. Behind those shards, Sam's eyes could see the impossible. An entire landscape revealed itself piece by piece. An antique city laid behind the walls of his kitchen, which had almost entirely shattered by then. Sam recognized the buildings as soon as the shock began to settle. The pillars, the statues, the clothing of the people, the iconic lighthouse in the distance indicated that they traveled to the Egyptian capitol Alexandria, city of Cleopatra. More than two thousand years ago!

When Sersi opened her eyes again, the shards which had once been Sam's kitchen had already evaporated. They stood on Alexandria's main street. The shimmering ocean was about to swallow the sun. The city wasn't densely populated, so nobody had noticed their arrival. However, Sersi's dominatrix outfit and Sam's rather casual yet modern clothes already drew appalled gazes towards them. While Sersi grinned proudly and ignored them, Sam felt like running away.

"I didn't know you could travel through time!"

Sersi shrugged her delicate shoulders. "There are a lot of things you don't know. Yet."

"This is amazing!" Sam only now realized that he had wished to visit ancient Egypt for as long as he could think. He had studied the culture for many years, even wrote a book about it and had visited the pyramids twice already. Often he had daydreamed about how life would have been back then. Now he feasted his own eyes on it. "This is Alexandria. THE ancient Alexandria. There is the library!"

Sersi's smug smile spread over her entire cheek. Her arms slung around Sam from behind and her chin settled on his shoulders. "Can you guess why I fancy you so much, mmhh?" But Sam was still clueless. The goddess could have anyone. She could have picked the sexiest men all around the world, and apparently, all across the history as well. "Because you care about what has been," Sersi whispered into his ears. "I'm many thousand years old, Sam. I've lived more lives than I remember. But I'll always remember the past and the fate of entire cultures. People don't care anymore about their history. They don't learn from it because they turn their back on their ancestors. But you, you show actual interest of our mutual past. You care about all the fallen nations and try to understand their downfall. That is, among many other reasons, why I love your company. That's why I want to suck your cock so hard."

Sersi licked the air, but Sam could feel her tongue slinging along his continuously erected shaft. He was about to express his gratitude when a hard, authoritarian voice interrupted him. Somehow he could understand the Egyptian language fluently. "You two! Away from another!" A roman patrol of six men approached them. Rome had spread its influence to Egypt that year, Sam recalled. There were Roman soldiers everywhere in Alexandria. Cleopatra had just died, allowing Caesar to push forward. "What is the meaning of your apparel?" The captain and his patrol came to a halt on front of them. He didn't wait for an answer. "Imprison them!" he ordered.

While Sam's heart set out, Sersi just rolled her eyes. "Romans," she sighed and faced the captain. "Hey. Ever wondered how life would be as a pile of camel feces?" The captain didn't have time to respond. Sersi had already twirled a finger and transformed all six men, along with their uniforms, into six piles of reeking road apples. It happened so fast that Sam needed some seconds to understand what just happened while Sersi rubbed her hands.

"Ehh... they're..."

"Literal shit, yes. I hate Romans. Ruining everything for everyone."

Sam felt his throat tie close. Not just had Sersi just blithely killed six men, but she had also abused her powers to end the lives of potentially good soldiers. Never before had she shown that cruelty.

Sersi noticed his shock and rolled her eyes. "They're still alive, you big softy," she calmed him. "And they'll turn back after... let's say three days. I never kill without an absolutely justified reason."

With a sigh of relief, Sam nodded and felt his breath return. He was aware how dominating, bossy and narsissistic Sersi could be. That she always got what she desired. That she exploited her powers without considering others. However, she had never been pointlessly cruel or heartless. Despite her bossy attitude, Sam still considered her as one of the good ones. "Alright," he said. "But haven't you just altered history by erasing them for a couple of days? Us even standing here should in theory change the overall course of time."

A certain proudness defined Sersi's smile. "How refreshing to travel with someone who can actually think around two corners. Let's... go somewhere else where I can explain why I brought us here."