Chapter II [1319 B.C.]
"Ramses" said the woman who had payed for Leila as the woman throw her arms around a tan man. They had just entered the house when from the back, a ship had arrived with the man jumping off it and walking in. The man hugged the woman.
"Nefert, what do you want" he said in a jokingly manner as she laughed and hit him on his bare shoulder.
"Ramses, is this why you think I love you?" she responded while laughing. As Leila watched, she could sense that those two loved each other. Where they related? They didn't act like lovers. At that moment, as Leila watched, she caught eyes with the man and she just stared. A brown eye with the other pair a hazel color? Heterochromia huh. And not only that, he was... really good looking. With the headdress on, she couldn't tell see his hair color but it might be blond if his eyebrows gave any indication. He had a strong face as well as a strong body. Muscles on his biceps, chest and abs. Nice and defined, nothing excessively so.
They stared at each other for what seemed like minutes to her but was only about some seconds (blame the theory of relatively, thanks Einstein). She raised her chin up, like she was going to defy him. He smirked, which – if she was a person who wore their emotions on their sleeves, she would blush – but she kept her face blank of any emotion. Nothing to indicate of what she had thought of him earlier in case some sense had escaped her and reached. him. By that smirk of his, Leila could tell he was a man who got woman to fawn over him easily.
"Who is she?" he said to the woman. The woman then turned around to look at Leila and the woman raised her eyebrow. Did he ask about her?
"Who, her. No one really, I just bought her from the market" the woman said casually. She better not be treating me like a slave just cause she bought me Leila thought. At that moment, the woman let go of the man and went up to Leila.
"Nefert" she said. Leila raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Do you not know Egyptian" she said. The woman looked at her for a while.
"Nefert, let it be. Shes just a slave, if you give her a rag and point towards the stream, she'll get what to do" the man said as he walked away .
"But Ramses, she suppose to be my personal maid" the woman shouted at him. As this went on Leila just looked on confused. "Humph, stupid Ramses" the woman muttered. The woman turned towards Leila again. She pointed at her own chest with her pointer finger.
"Nefert" she said slowly. Leila understood then. She nodded. The woman then pointed at Leila's chest and waited.
"Leila" Leila said slowly as well. The woman smiled then. She looked down at the young girl she had also bought.
"Tale" the girl said while she bowed her head. Nefert nodded. She then yelled something out and a servant (or she looked like a servant) came in with rags and handed them to Leila and Tale. It was obvious what she was suppose to do but she didn't belong here. She wasn't a servant. For god's sake she was a medical student. Before she could say anything, everyone in the room left her. Leila looked around and went outside. The house was decent, she guessed. There was a nice boat in the pool of water coming into the backyard. She noticed guards at the ship. They weren't looking at her so she decided to go and get the rags wet. While there, she saw that the walls were high so she wouldn't be able to climb out and after her ordeal,she wasn't ready to go back inside the water. She went back inside the house and while she cleaned, she looked at the house to search for exits for some hours.
"Here you go, its all you get to eat till dinner" a old voice said as Leila got a roll of bread. Leila watched the woman go. Was the roll for her? She smelled it and licked it to see if there was something wrong with it. She kept looking at it when she heard a chuckle behind her.
"What, afraid we poisoned it" the voice said something. Leila turned around only to face a tan face with deep brown and hazel eye. She backed up, but then held her spot. She glared at him which only caused him to laugh more.
"Don't worry, nothings wrong with it" he said as he stepped closer to her, took her roll, and took a small bite from it, as if to prove something. He then left her. Who was he? She wondered.
"Leila's odd isn't' she?" Ramses heard Nefert's voice from behind him. Ramses looked at his favorite, smartest sister. He nodded. Yes, the new servant was odd indeed. "And quite beautiful" Nefert said as she nudged Ramses. Ramses grinned at that. Indeed, the woman who called herself Leila was beautiful. She was not what would normally aroused his interest but there was something of her behind her rare green eyes. She had flaming red hair, her check bones strong, her jaw strong, her lips full, small nose with her pale skin. Tall girl with a skinny body, but she did have some meat. It wasn't hard to tell with her odd cloths she was wearing. Some sort of rough dark material was covering her legs tightly from ankle to hips. Another layer that hug her thin waist to the top of her average breast with two straps holding them and then a thicker layers from her wrist that covered most of her upper person except her front.
"Yes, Nefert she is beautiful. But what is the real reason you bought her?" he asked her. Nefert grinned.
"Well it was Ako's fault if you must know. He was selling slaves and when I saw this girl all proud and strong in the crowd, I wanted to help her. Or more like help him since I get the feeling she could kill him" Nefert said laughing. "And there is just something really odd about her. Like how come she doesn't know our language, she must be from far away. And her cloths might be another inclination of her wealth. Or poorness, I can't tell what that would cost" Nefert mused out loud. Ramses nodded. Depending, Ako could have been in trouble depending on who the girl was. He find out who the girl was.
"Well, I'm off for walk Nefert" he said as he started to walk away "I'll be here for dinner" Ramses said as he waved at his sister as he walked away.
"Okay" she replied. Ramses didn't look back, just kept walking. He walked out towards where the vendors sold their good and went into a bar to have a drink and see what he could find inside. He opened the door to hear the mans roar and the woman giggles pour out to the already darkening town. He stepped inside to find a place to sit when his name was called out. Looking towards where the voice was coming from, Ramses noted about eight of his colleagues sitting down with mugs all around them.
"General, come sit here" a drunken Chigaru called out. Sighing, Ramses walked towards them and sat down next to Hasani who seemed to be sober as he poured Ramses a mug. Ramses thanked him.
"So what bring you here General" hiccuped Chigaru. Ramses gave him a blank, bored look.
"Nothing really, just looking around" he replied as he sipped his drink.
"Haha, I bet your here because you got rejected" Jafari, another drunken solider, leered at Ramses. Ramses raised a brow to his implication. Hasani answered.
"Don't listen to him, he's just mad that such a beauty as your new servant isn't serving in his house thats all. And also drunk, he shouldn't be talking to you in such a way" Ramses looked at him.
"Beauty. How do you know about her already?" he asked them.
"It's all over town how your sister was able to buy that girl from Ako" he said laughing. "Ako was really mad considering he really wanted the girl, but then he really wants your sister so if he got your sister he might eventually get the girl as well" Hasani explained his theory. Ramses nodded.
"I guess, but Nefert won't let him. She kill him first" everybody around the table laughed. The subject about Leila was dropped and they broached other subjects. When an hour or so had passed, Ramses looked out the small window and knew they be serving dinner soon. "Well, I'm going home to have a nice home cooked meals. Its been forever" he said as he got up. Hasani got up as well.
"Yea guys, I'm going to go home as well" he said and all the guys jeered at him saying he didn't have a wife or family to go to. He smiled at them and jested back. Hasani and Ramses left and started to walk in the same direction. At Ramses doorstep they stopped.
"Well, see you later General Ramses" Hasani said.
"Hey, come join us for dinner" Ramses invited him knowing full well that the only thing he be going to would be bad food he cooked himself and he didn't have enough money to eat out everyday.
"I don't wish to intrude" he answered.
"Nah, you won't. Really, it's just me, my mother and sister they won't mind." Hasani hesitated. "It's an order solider" Ramses said. Hasani grinned.
"Yes sir. I will do as you commend" as they both walked inside the house, Hasani remarked that he indeed was curious about this new servant of his. Ramses just nodded his head. As they sat down to eat, Ramses introduced Hasani to his mother while Nefert replied how nice it was to see him again.
"Thank you for your hospitality Ramses family" he bowed to them.
"It's okay Hasani,sat down" Nefert replied. He nodded, his cheeks a shade of red as he sat down. Dinner arrived and they started eating. Ramses noticed Hasani was trying not to wolf down as his food as he ate. He must have been eating a lot of his own food lately to be this enthused about simple cooking Ramses concluded.
"So, Hasani what commission are you part of?" his near blind mother asked. Hasani looked at Ramses mother for awhile before he swallowed the huge lump of food down his throat.
"WELL- " his voice gave a high squeak. He cleared his throat. "Well, actually I just sorta of started. I worked under General Ramses here for just a while so I still don't really have a commission yet" he replied. Ramses grunted. Indeed this young man no more then 18 had been under his command for some while and though he was a hard working man, he can't exactly say he was the most poised.
"How nice of you, I hope Ramses wasn't too rough with you" his mother replied. Hasani had again food in his mouth and had to swallow rapidly to answer Ramses's mothers question.
"No -" he started. Ramses at first thought that his voice had cracked and he was clearing his throat when he saw Nefert run over to Hasani and look at his face in shock, hitting his back hard. Hasani's face was slowly turning to red and he was flinging his arms frantically. Ramses went over and was about to take over Nefert's job when a smaller person then him but still a big person got between him and Hasani. The servant girl made Hasani stand up, she put her arms around his chest and started to push up against his chest.
"Hey what are you doing" Ramses yelled at her as he tried to pry her arms from around Hasani who was now a red color.
"I'm trying to help" she yelled at him in her own language. Really, what language was this, he never heard anything like it.
"I said let go, your just going to hurt him more" he kept on yelling. Damn, the girl keep a tight rein on Hasani. She kept pushing into his chest as Ramses tried to pull her away. What the hell, he should be able to get her off easily. He was going to go about it in a different way when he momentarily let go of here that Hasani was given one final thrust and "whoosh", the food that had been stuck in his throat came out landing on the floor. The servant girl let go of him as Hasani caught his breath.
"You alright?" Ramses asked him. Hisani just waved his hand over his head. Nodding knowing he was okay, Ramses looked at the girl who had now gotten in front of Hasani and was what seemed to be checking him. Nodding to herself, she got up and looked down at him.
"Well you'll be okay but really, eat slower and chow your food better" she said as if lecturing him on something (probably to chew better) and she stalked off. When he caught his breath, Hasani got up and looked towards the way the servant girl had left.
"Who is she?" he asked astonished. Ramses just looked without answering. That question he himself wanted to know.
Another chapter made and I hope it was better (it story wise and grammar/spelling wise) I really tired, (k I'm really lazy about editing) but I do try sometimes and its late and I'm going to sleep so goodnight ppl and hope you like my new chapter and plz r&r I want to know your thoughts. :)
