Prologue
The sun shown through the window of mine and my baby sisters limestone hut.
I have awoken early this morning, before the sun had risen.
I was making breakfast, a meal of dried fish, bread, cheese and a cup of water.
I looked down at the small meal as my little sister walked into the room.
"Good morning sister. How long have you been up?" The cloth that hung up to separate our bedroom from the rest of our hut fell as my sister, Zalika fixed her short black braided hair.
"For a few hours. I made breakfast." My sister sat down and looked at her plate.
There was one piece of bread, one piece of cheese, one pieace of dried fish and beside the of the plate there was a cup of water.
"Oh sister, how did you get the cheese?" Zalika asked as she smiled at me.
I chuckled as I got up, walked of to the corner where we had all of our food and picked up a small wooden box.
"I bought it this morning. Once the market was open, I went down to see if there was anything other than just dried fish and bread for us to eat." I had a look of pain on my face.
"Omorose, did you spend the rest of our money on something nice for us to eat?" I looked at my 8 year old sister in complete shock.
"No sister I didn't. We still have two gold pieces and one silver piece left." I put the wooden box back where I got it and sat back down.
My sister looked at me and said, "I am grateful for this meal sister. Thank you."
I know that my sister was mad at me but, she knew that I was trying to make our life alittle better.
After we ate our breakfast, I had to say goodbye to Zalika cause of our jobs.
My sister works in the market, by fetching water for all of the shop owners.
While I work at the palce of the Pharaoh Set-Ra, as a maid.