What Is the Use of Giving Water to the Foul at Daybreak?

The story ends with the commander speaking one mysterious and incredibly dark line. The best thing that ancient Egyptians had known was despotism. Skeletons of tomb and temple workers over the course of ancient Egypt's history show muscle tears, arthritis, bone breaks, hernias, and other signs of literally being worked to death. In such a place and time, one must have largely felt that one's fate was out of one's own control.