Aharet and Mekare

aharet and Mekare possess powers to attract and communicate with spirits. The first born of the red-haired twins, Mekare is more powerful and outspoken than her sister, Maharet.

Mekare and Maharet are called before Akasha's court to answer questions about the nature of their sorcery. Soldiers slaughter their village and the twins are taken to Egypt. During the long journey, Khayman (the King's chief steward) looked upon the twins with compassion and did everything he could to ease their pain.

Akasha and Enkil later order Khayman to rape the twins when they do not provide clear answers to the King and Queen. The twins are ordered before the court a second time only to discover that the King and Queen have been transformed into something not human. When the twins explain to Akasha and Enkil about their new existence, the twins are sentenced to die.

Akasha orders that Mekare's tongue be torn from her mouth for her evil lies and discourse with demons, and that Maharet's eyes be plucked out for the evil which she envisioned and sought to make the King and Queen believe in. Before her tongue is removed, Mekare speaks her prophecy to destroy the "Queen of the Damned" at the hour of her greatest menace.

The twins are imprisoned to suffer together before they are to be burnt. Khayman (now a vampire) comes to them and makes Mekare a vampire after she is imprisoned with her sister. Mekare later gives Maharet immortality.