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Somewhere in this Valley
Between the years when the French campaign in Egypt and Syria had ended and the years of the search for Tutankhamun's tomb had begun, there was an Egyptologist by the name of Kwee. He had reached the height of the field by the time his daughter Tina was fifteen years of age and yet unfortunately by the time Tina was fifteen he had fallen back down to the bottom of the field.
Believing that Ptah, the Egyptian God of the Arts and the first Pharaoh of the legendary period, had been based off of a real person, Kwee intended to set out and find his tomb. The result was for him to become the laughing stock of archaeological community and for him to be brought down to the bottom again. He died by the end of the year but not out of grief or any such thing. During his last expedition in Egypt, where he was in search of Ptah's tomb Kwee was murdered by mercenaries… Believed to have been hired by the King of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty.
As for Tina, she grew into a brave young woman determined to bring her father's name out of the mud it had fallen into. So it was that in the Valley of the Kings she stood not far from the tomb of Ramesses I.
"Somewhere in this valley…" She muttered. "Somewhere in this valley…"
"What was that, Ms. Kwee?" asked a voice.
"Nothing, Stepak." Replied Tina. "Just talking to myself." Her scullion or servant, Stepak had come with her. The Kwee family had another servant by the name of Moneranian but ever since Moneranian's father had been apprehended and discovered to have been one of the mercenaries who had assassinated Mr. Kwee… Who would have kept him so close?
"You'll be happy to know that Mr. Ping will be arriving in Cairo in a few days, Mr. Martinez is attending some sort of thing with James Fenimore Cooper so his help is a maybe and Mr. Holgaart is facing imprisonment for accidentally damaging a statue of Holger Danske, funny thing irony."
"What about Biffy?" asked Tina.
"Mr. Goldstein? He has been arrested for walking into a bar with a pig under one arm and a five-foot salami under the other."
Tina could only stare. That was and odd thing to be arrested for. It only caused her to wonder what Biffy had been doing with a pig and a five-foot salami. She shook her head and placed a hand on Stepak's shoulder.
"Very good. Back to our accommodations then?"