The Judgment of Sutekh ( audio story ) Publisher ' s summary . Trapped on Mars , two explorers find themselves pawns in a deadly power game between Faction Paradox and Lolita . . . The final battle between Sutekh and Horus threatens to tear the fabric of space and time to shreds . . . At the end of the day , one side will be victorious . . . but which will it be ? Plot . Battlefield One : Earth . Lolita and Corwyn Marne jump to the end of the great battle between the two armies in Egypt . Sutekh ' s war barge arrives , and he confronts Nephthys and the wounded Horus in the Temple of Geb . Horus begs Sutekh to kill him , saying he ' s tired of fighting and he ' s terribly bored . Sutekh angrily complies , then begins to gloat about his plans to wipe Horus ' name from the universe . However , Nephthys says Faction Paradox will never forget , and though she doesn ' t know where Justine il - Isis was hidden , Sutekh pulls from her mind the fact that the Faction has allies in the 18th century , where he immediately goes and finds John Pennerton on 16 October 1764 . Sutekh forces him to direct the Society of Sigis Mondo di Rimoni to declare war on Faction Paradox and search for Cousin Justine . Meanwhile , Nephthys ' servants are bring Horus ' body out of the temple into their barge . Horrified that Faction Paradox has apparently changed the outcome of the battle , Lolita rushes down in disbelief to check that Horus is actually dead ; she then takes Marne back to Mars to survey the new timeline . Battlefield Two : Mars . Geb buries Sutekh ' s body in a pyramid as over a thousand Osirian s watch . Lolita and Marne quietly watch , but when Abelard Finton and Justine ' s simulacrum appear in Horus ' barge , Marne begins yelling warnings to Finton about Lolita . Though Justine and Finton heed Marne ' s advice , his shouting has drawn attention to Lolita , who Geb recognises as the person who gave him his scars . With the combined power of the entire Osirian Court assembled there , Geb is able to shut down Lolita ' s transduction field so she wouldn ' t be able to dematerialise or navigate away . They then began to burn her alive . However , Lolita unfolded into her horrific true body , used her status as War Queen to open a connection to the Homeworld , and escaped through said channel . Marne told Geb that Sutekh was headed to attack 18th century Earth , and though Geb initially didn ' t believe him , he saw the truth in Marne ' s memory . He set off to investigate , abandoning Marne on Mars . Battlefield Three : Earth , later . By 8 November , 1764 , the Society still has found no trace of Justine . However , Sutekh has regardless detected an intrusion and found Finton at Volanto on the Italian coast . Sutekh ' s agents torture Finton until he reveals Justine ' s location and the location of her timeship . Then , the agents dump Finton on Pennerton ' s doorstep . He shortly thereafter dies in Pennerton ' s arms . In the Mediterranean Sea , Geb arrived to investigate a temporal disturbance in his search for Sutekh on Earth . A modified timeship was hidden there , and Horus were there with Nephthys and over 700 fellow warriors , preparing for the battle in Egypt against Sutekh ' s followers . Just after Horus and Nephthys leave , Sutekh arrives , given the location of their timeship by Finton . Instead , he finds Geb , who cries that this is impossible : he earlier found Sutekh in the sand on Mars , half - dead , and trapped him in the pyramid . How could Sutekh then be alive ? Enraged , Sutekh psychically attacked Geb and dumped his body on the floor of the Temple of Geb just in time to watch Sutekh tear our Horus ' heart . Battlefield Four : Osirian Court . Justine ' s simulacrum and Finton left Sutekh ' s funeral on Mars and entered the Ship of a Billion Years . There they met Nephthys , who was transporting Horus ' corpse ; Nephthys passes on a final message from Horus : " Be afraid . " In the throne room , Sutekh began psychically attacking Justine ' s simulacrum when Finton began to compulsively recite one of his poems . The poem broke down Justine ' s bio - filter just as Sutekh opened a direct channel between their two minds ; this connection allowed Justine to lash out with her shadow - weapon and sever some of Sutekh ' s nervous connections . She then dumped his body on Mars . Battlefield Five : The Homeworld . Instead of going to the battle in Egypt , Horus surprises Nephthys by traveling down a time link to the Homeworld , then " dealing with " Lolita . References . " to be added " Story notes . " to be added "