Fictional Account

The famine continues into the second year, as has been foretold by the Grand Vizier, and we are promised five more years beyond this until the fields of the Two Lands will once again be fertile. We have already seen much upheaval in the kingdom; none now remember the times before the Amu came, except through legend and story.

Our Lord Pharaoh Per-aa has just made known that the Great Steward of the Lord of the Two Lands is of a family of shepherds and is bringing his family into Egypt to provide them with shelter and assistance during the famine. I have met this Joseph and, despite his previous profession, am impressed with him. His natural abilities at dream interpretation would do well with study and development; I do not say that he could achieve the skill of a professional interpreter at his age, for he is now nearly 40, yet he does possess an untrained facility that has in fact served the nation well in helping us to prepare for the desolation that now plagues our fields. He foresaw in Pharaoh's dreams the seven years of plenty which allowed us to fill the granaries in preparation for these seven years of famine. He took the seven fat, healthy cows and the seven robust stalks of grain to be the seven years which we did indeed enjoy befor

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Approximate Word count = 851
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)

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