Megan Hamilton
The Golden Sphinx - The Keeper of Secrets
The Sphinx and the Goddess
Once she was innocent.....
But that was a long time ago. Born on ancient earth, 200 BC as near as anyone can figure, in a remote village high in the Himalayan mountains. She should have been raised by those of her own Bastet race. She wasn't. Instead she was raised by superstitious and barbaric humans. Standing out with her pale skin, blond hair and gray blue eyes. Neglected, abused, she ran away at the age of 13 and traveled through many lands for many years, until an accidental use of the umbra landed her in Rhy'din.
Once she was a docile 'kept cat'....
Believing in true love, she married Sasha Stinger and settled down to raise the twins they bore between them. Discovered by Bast as one of her lost ones that was related by the cat goddesses very blood, a grand daughter, Megan sat at her feet and learned what she truly was. Not a possessed evil creature,but a proud Bagheera of the Bastet race. Trained and guided by Bast to walk the Path of Light, to battle evil where ever she found it, and to become a strong Bon Bhat someday of her own people. Fate it seemed had a different idea.
Abandoned by her wife, led to believe she was dead, Megan went mad with grief. She fostered the twins to her grandmother and began her wandering again, empty, her heart shattered, and not caring if she lived or died. Friends and family could only watch, unable to reach her and help the poor cat.
Once she was lost, then found...
One night she was hanging out in a strip club in some random realm she had wandered into, and on that night she made the acquaintance of a woman named Reisha D'Hari. It was to turn out to be an evening that would change Megan's life forever.
The woman opened Megan's eyes to the darker side of pleasure, in a back room at the club, and left Megan confused and extremely curious. To Reisha it was considered a one night stand, but to Megan, it was a peek into dark desires she suddenly craved to know more about. She began to stalk the woman, learning that she was a dragon, who had become much more than simply that. One that was not yet a Goddess. That too would change one day.
Having awoken strange yearnings in the Bastet, Megan begged the woman to show her more than she had the night they had met. Reisha was happy to oblige. Awakening the wild nature of Megan's inner beast that she had always been taught to contain. Megan began to learn that things were not always black or white, good or evil, that everyone was tainted one way or another. Through pleasure and pain at Reisha's hands, though her teachings, Megan began to evolve to the in-between, the gray path. Embracing it while Reisha reached her goal of ascending to godhood.
Megan then rebelled......
Not against Reisha, who Megan had begun calling 'my dragon', but against her own race, Bast and the entire Egyptian Pantheon. The gods and goddess she had served since she was very young, and some whom she was blood related to. She renounced them all. She had decided to follow her own path, not the one that she had been set upon by Bast. She instead pledged her heart and soul to Reisha, now the Goddess of Chaos, Sex, Dark Desires and Death. Paying the price of her own children as Bast removed them from Megan on the grounds of now being a bad influence and parent. Megan accepted it, knowing Bast would never hurt the twins. Just as much as she knew it was with Reisha that she finally felt whole and finally found a purpose that felt right to her.
She evolved and grew under Reisha's tutelage in the newly founded Temple of the Dark Flame, also called the Temple of the Black Flame. Over and over she proved her value to Reisha and passed the Goddess's tests. She actively helped search out and find other lost ones to become followers, and she was greatly rewarded.
She gained immortality.....
She allowed her Goddess to change her into something more than your average Bastet. Further 'tainting' her in the eyes of her own race. Megan accepted Reisha's gifts and became her Eternal Companion, her bonded Mate, earning also the highest 'rank' possible in the Temple, second only to the Goddess herself. The Rank of High Priestess. None of these things were forced on her, but a choice offered to her that she agreed to after much thought.
Then she was tossed aside.....
After at least a decade of service to the Goddess, she was also marked by her brother, Raven, God of Vengeance, and became his Reaper. Becoming unbalanced when Reisha woke more darkness inside Megan faster than she could deal with it, as well as being pushed over the edge by two rather nasty Elves, she took her own vengeance on a small tribe of Elves, wiping out the entire population of twenty five. As a punishment she was forced to then wipe out an equal amount of her own kind, which she did as ordered by Reisha and Raven. She was then set on a road for further atonement, one who would live her life balancing any unbalanced worlds that Reisha and Raven felt needed such.
It was a task she would never complete, for it wasn't long before her Marks were removed after Reisha broke the bond between them as Mates and took a new Mate, tossing the Bastet aside. Even though Megan was filled with guilt and remorse for her actions to the Elves and the Qualmi and wished to fully atone, even though when young Reisha and Raven had done far worse in their past, there was no forgiveness to be had from them. she was cast out from Elisium, tossed aside into exile.
Currently she resides at her Bay, her Den Realm, a place even Reisha and Raven cannot reach her at. A place she is safe with her two best friends / mates, whose home elsewhere she also shares, helping to care for their twin children and healing with their help. She also wanders other lands, and is also now the Consort of a Queen in one of them, a woman who is a long standing lover, one who always accepted her no matter how dark she became. She wishes to have nothing again to do with any God or Goddess, swearing to never serve any ever again, for she still retains all of her memories, as well as some of Reisha's most guarded secrets. A dangerous one to leave alive with such knowledge, she is doing her best to heal and move forward with her life.
Cross her at your own risk, for this cat has more than simple claws and teeth....
"I hate to tell you this;" Jason said. "But I think your leopard just ate a goddess."
Rick Riorden - "The Last Hero"
"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched"
Miguel de Cervantes