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Cleopatra
Cleopatra is recorded in 1 distinct story.
The dead queen whose face Evie recalls touching as a beetle inside her sarcophagus. This is a historical portrayal within Evie’s narrated experience. This identity is currently scoped to Sleeping Beauties; it is not merged from an identical name in another work.
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Sleeping Beauties
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Evie had seen dinosaurs; she had looked down upon the great forests of America from the eyes of a passenger pigeon. She had surfed into Cleopatra’s sarcophagus atop a flume of desert sand and caressed the glorious queen’s dead face with beetle legs.
The dead queen whose face Evie recalls touching as a beetle inside her sarcophagus. This is a historical portrayal within Evie’s narrated experience.
Sleeping Beauties ↗By Stephen King and Owen King