Sadie Kane here. I know, our last recording and all that, but things have a nasty habit of turning nasty whenever we feel too normal.

After the Apep incident (long story, but we call him Apep instead of Apophis now), everything sort of settled down. A message or two from the gods now and then, a mischievous magician gone bonkers, but no Setne. The entire House of Life and the Godly Council were getting very, very nervous. Some say he was killed or driven insane by a failed experimental spell, but the majority was still looking for traces that weren't there. As much as I hate to admit it, I was getting scared, too.

When we were't wasting our time fretting about Setne, we lead fairly normal lives, like the day when Anubis tried to kill the Pope. Things were getting pretty ugly, and would have resulted in revealing our identities to the whole world if Isis hadn't stepped in.

It all started on a very normal afternoon. Carter was talking with Anubis, whom I had brought over to Brooklyn House after...well...let's just say a date. Carter said he needed to do some history homework involving Egypt. Meanwhile, I was drawing crayon portraits of the Set animal, because Shelby asked me to. (I do not, nor do I want to know why.) As I added my finishing touches to a hilariously garbed, very ugly, and over-lipsticked God of evil, I could hear the conversation suddenly freezing from Carter and Anubis's direction. I turned to see Carter cautiously shaking the shoulder of a very stunned-looking Anubis; his expression looked like he'd taken a dive in Antarctica. He started walking towards the door. Carter shouted "Wait!" and ran after him, only to find that he had disintergrated into a pile of toilet paper. (Yes, Carter dear, of course I knew it was linen. And no, I do not actually use linen for toilet paper. Now shut up.)

"Oh no. Oh nononono..." Carter moaned. Everybody looked in our direction.

"Well, what did you do this time?" I demanded. As stupid as Carter was, he seemed to have realized he'd done something wrong. Well, duh. Anubis had looked as shocked as Bast when I told her all the catnip in the world was gone, back on April Fool's day. She had this you will die Sadie Kane look on her face for the following month, the same look Anubis was wearing now. Except I wasn't the one he wanted dead. Hardly a relief.

"I was so stupid!" Carter muttered.

"That was one of the wisest things you said in your lifetime," I said angrily, my voice echoing in the silence. "Explain!"

"I-" He gulped, seeming to realize the full magnitude of what he had started. So what did he start?

"I told him about Mo- I mean, moments when you were, um, recording, Sadie, and, well...some of the, you know, more, um, not nicer things you said about him..."

Judging from the fact that his sentences weren't usually as butchered by commas and '...' s (Well, maybe when in front of Zia), I guessed he was lying. On the contrary, the rest of Brooklyn House was stifling laughs. Probably, they had been convinced that I would butcher his body later to go with his speech, and they were partly correct.

When everybody returned to what they had been doing, Carter hissed "Psst!" and beckoned at me to follow.

I followed him upstairs. When we were out of earshot, I cast an anti-eavesdropping spell to be safe, and sat down with Carter.

"Sadie, I think I might have triggered a big situation here..." He looked very scared. "Please don't kill me."

I started to say "Why? What did-" When I felt the presence of Isis fill my mind.

My, how long it had been. The feeling of a divine entity several thousand years older and many times more powerful than you inhabiting your private space is just bloody wierd. I rolled my eyes. 'What?'

Isis chuckled. 'I would have expected a hello at least. I just happened to detect one of my more... important, permanent incantations being lifted around here.'

I frowned. Having been her host a few times, I immediately recognized that mood. She was trying to act calm, but failing badly. Ugh, if she'd been an actress, she would have been absolutely horrid.

Carter nudged me. "Who is it?"

"Isis." I replied. "Looks of it, one of her spells, an important one, was lifted around here, and she wants our help."

I could see the cogs turning in Carter's head as I replied.

'Sadie, we need to go NOW.' Isis said in my head. She wasn't hiding her urgency now. Across the table, I could see the final gears and levers coming to a conclusion and blinking 'Aha!' in Carter's eyes. Sure enough, he snapped his fingers with that look on his face.

"Why? What?" I said. As usual, I was ignored. (Yes, you did, Carter. Go die in a hole.)

He looked at me and said, "Isis, it's about Anubis, isn't it?"

I froze. What? In my head, I could feel Isis freezing as well.

'What does he mean, Isis? What happened to Anubis?' I wondered. She seemed to sigh.

'Well, I knew I couldn't hide it from you for long. But first, we need to get going; I'll explain on the way.'

I decided to punch him later. We strapped Freak to the boat, and headed toward Isis's rainbow portal.

Oh crappicino. The ending sounds horribly like a My Little Pony thingie.

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