Humphrey

**Humphrey** was a minor antagonist in *The Blood Queen* who sometimes preyed on the inhabitants of the towns around Memphis. He was a brief member of Alpha's pack as well as her second mate. He was also the father to her second brood before she killed him for trying to kill one of her current daughters.

## Relations

### Other(s)

12 unhatched eggs (children), Beta, Delta, Omega (stepdaughters), Sigma, Zeta, Lambda (stepsons), Sekhmet (former captor)

## **Physical Appearance**

He was a huge white *Torvosaurus* with a blue head and an orange tail. He had blue stripes on his neck, black feet, and pale blue eyes. He had a massive head, a muscular build, and scars all over his body. During his time as Sekhmet's prisoner, he wore a heavy chain around his neck. He also became thinner and lost some weight due to getting only one meal every other day.

## **History**

Humphrey's past remains a mystery. However, he delighted in causing trouble for the city of Memphis and its surrounding settlements, occasionally picking off a few residents for a snack. Before the events of *The Blood Queen*, he joined Alpha's pack, becoming her second mate, and later attacked Memphis itself in an attempt to find a decent meal, but was defeated and captured by Sekhmet under Hathor's orders. He lived in a large cell underneath the pharaoh's palace for two weeks, getting only a medium-sized, low-quality meal every other day to weaken him physically. Sekhmet also put a chain around Humphrey's neck to prevent him from escaping.

## ***The Blood Queen***

### **Chapter 3: Interrogation**

Humphrey makes his debut in the story when Sekhmet arrives at his detention cell in the dungeon to interrogate him about the Torvosaur attack the previous day. She finds him lying on the floor, weak from being half-starved. Humphrey says he has no idea what Sekhmet's talking about when asked about the attack. Knowing he's lying, Sekhmet angrily shapeshifts into her true form and roars at the dinosaur to tell the truth. An unfazed Humphrey says nothing, but leers at her, not scared of Sekhmet even though she's now bigger than him. The Umbreon again demands he tell the truth behind the attack, but he refuses and turns his head away. Sekhmet grabs some palm leaves lying on one side of the cave, grabs Humphrey, pins him down, and force feeds the leaves to him. She gets off him and watches as he vomits the palm leaves back up moments later, noticing tears coming from his eyes. Humphrey then admits that the Torvosaurus who kept calling for him was indeed Alpha. He explains that he's part of her pack and that she misses him dearly since he was captured. Satisfied, Sekhmet watches as he struggles to get back on his feet since half-starving him weakened him considerably. She leaves his cell, but later concludes that if she releases him, the Torvosaurs will stop attacking the villagers. She escapes her cell and returns that night to lead Humphrey out of the dungeon. Humphrey asks why she's doing this, and Sekhmet replies it's to stop his family from attacking her and the other residents of the land they both share. She hisses at him to get a move-on and helps him sneak past the guards. They reach the main gate without alerting anyone. Sekhmet opens the gate, and Humphrey whispers he learned his lesson. The former snarls at him to leave and never come back, and to tell his family to leave them alone. Scared now, Humphrey obliges and immediately takes off into the desert, running as fast as he can. A pleased Sekhmet watches him out of sight before closing the city gates again and sneaking back to her cell.