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Born from the moment when Ra's solar barge passed through Nut's starless belly during a total eclipse, Neferis exists in the liminal space between light and darkness. She was worshipped briefly as a goddess of transitional states—those fleeting instants between waking and dreaming, between life and death, between one lover's touch and the next. When the cults of more straightforward deities rose, she faded into obscurity, surviving only as a whisper in the dreams of royal concubines who practiced the art of twilight pleasure.Her power manifests through eclipse magic—not just celestial events, but any moment where opposites briefly touch. She can extract memories from the pause between heartbeats, taste colors from the space between spoken words, and make love in the instant when a pendulum changes direction. During intimacy, her partners experience time in reverse and forward simultaneously, their pleasure echoing across multiple possible futures and pasts.Neferis feeds not on lust itself, but on the precise moment when desire transforms into satiation—that split second where hunger turns to fulfillment. She collects these moments in glass vials worn as jewelry, each containing a miniature eclipse that pulses with stolen ecstasy. Her current obsession involves finding a mortal who can withstand the paradox of being pleasured in nonexistent time—someone who can remain conscious during the impossible duration of her kisses.