"Finally!" Hana cries excitedly to see the library clean and tidy. "After almost two weeks we finally finished."
"Almost three weeks". Nubia looks around. "Thanks for helping us Jonathan". Seeing him lying on the table.
"I am ... very exhausted, I do not remember having worked so hard". Jonatha says exhausted and half asleep.
"You work?" Nubia asks funny.
"Well, now that we're finished, we can finally investigate more about Hamunaptra." Evy smiles with enthusiasm. "Nubia, did you find anything in your grandfather's books?" watching her.
Well, he took the majority, but now he's in the Luxor Temple and I send him a letter on the map that we found in that box that Mr. Bey confiscated." Nubia responds while grabbing her purse.
"That letter will arrive in a few days." Jonathan says desperate.
"I know, but I found one of his books that contains information about what he found in Nefertari's grave." Nubia takes out the book.
"Perfect." Evy grabs the book and begins to read it.
"What does she have to do with Seti?" Jonathan asks.
"Nefertari was the wife of Ramses II, son of Seti I." Hana responds.
"What does the book say?" Jonathan asks quickly approaching his sister.
"What everyone knows, it says here that Seti I was killed and that same night his two daughters died leaving only Ramses II." Evy read.
"The princesses Zahra and Nefertiri." Nubia says quickly. "Seti was supposed to have another daughter but she died as a child."
"How sad, to lose a whole family in one night". Hana sits sadly.
"But Ramses II had 152 children with his wife, concubines and many more." Nubia folded her arms.
"Wow, I admire him for keeping everyone." Jonathan gets up surprised
"And I would admire the woman who wanted to have a child with you." Nubia says funny and Jonathan smiles at her. "Never." looking away
"But I'm going to keep trying."
"Ramses II was the one who ordered the destruction of Hamunaptra?" Hana asks.
"Yes, and." Nubia grabs the book. "I found something from that city right ... here." Returning the book to Evy. "It's not much but you should read it."
"Let's see." Evy looks at the page. "Here it says that Ramses II ordered to destroy Hamunaptra so that no one relives the suffering of the night when his father was killed along with his older sisters and in which an innocent died because of him.
"Yes, I have heard of those monuments of that mysterious woman ... you do not know her name because one of her children was ordered to erase the names after the death of Ramses II." Hana says surprised. "Some say it was an old love and that Nefertari felt jealous."
"And I'm not even going to find your body." Evy says while still watching the book. "And that's not all, it also says that after Ramses II gave that order, he also ordered to destroy everything that contains the exact location of Hamunaptra ... that's all."
"Is that all ?!" Jonathan asks and Evy nods. "We're still without anything!"
"Well, the book and my grandfather gave me a clue, if Hamunaptra has something to do with the mysterious woman who is now known as The Princess without a name, which I now doubt she would have been a princess, there in Hamunaptra I will find information about her " Nubia says excited.
"And I find that book." Evy says smiling but her smile fades. "But ... how will we get there? We do not have the map since Mr. Bey confiscated it with the box and, apart from the fact that he burned it."
"That's simple, Hana, do you think you can retrieve the box and the map?" Question nubia.
"I know where he hides the things he does not want to be seen." Hana smiles.
"Perfect, now Jonathan tell the truth, who do you stole the box?" Nubia asks to see it.
"Do not say that, he found it in Thebes." Evy says quickly in defense of her brother.
"Jonathan." Nubia folded her arms.
"Well ..." Jonathan smiles nervously. "Maybe ... I know someone who knows the city."
Cairo Prison
"Come, come!" The Warden shouted. "Welcome to Cairo Prison, my humble home."
The Cairo Prison, one of the worst holes in hell on earth. All forms of low life scum can be found here. The Warden, a first class scum, accompanies Evelyn, Nubia and Jonathan through the gallows yard.
"You told us that you had found it in an excavation in Thebes!" Evy whispers annoyed.
"I was surprised you believed him." Nubia whispers funny.
"I was mistaken."Jonathan says while he walks among the girls.
"You lied to us!" Evy says annoyed.
"I lie to everybody, what makes you two so special?"
"I'm your sister."
"And Hana and I are almost your family." Nubia looks around.
"That just makes you more gullible." Jon told his sister before looking to Nubia. "And I wanted to impress you, but I know it's hard to do it."
"Well, you surprised me that you robbed someone without being hit." Nubia smiles funny.
"It's not fun, Nubia." Evy looks at her badly and turns to see her brother. "You stole it from a drunk at the local Casbah?!"
"Picked his pocket, actually." Jonathan corrects quickly. "And in the name of Hana, who could not come because she has to retrieve the map and the box, I don't think it's a very good…"
"Jonathan, please stop being so ridiculous." Nubia pulls him.
"What exactly is this man in prison for?" Evy asked the warden.
"I did not know." the warden answered. "But when I heard you were coming, I asked him that myself."
"What did he say?"
"He said he was just looking for a good time!"
The door burst open and two guards pulled out a long, disheveled abello man, tattered clothes, unshaven face, everything works. And he was fierce. He had huge muscles that bulged in his arms and also a polished chest.
"This is the man you stole it from?" Evy asked
"This must be a joke". Nubia looks surprised at the prisoner's muscles.
"Yes, exactly, so why don't we just go sniff out a spot of tiffin…"
"Who are you?" the man before asked rudely, before looking to the Nubia and Evy. "And who are the broads?"
"Broads!" Evy and Nubia asked in unison.
"I'm just a local sort of missionary chap, spreading the good word." Jonathan does a little sign of sorts before dragging Evy and Nubia in front of him. "But this my sister and my future wife, Evy and Nubia."
"In your dreams, and even there it will not even happen." Nubia says fun.
"How do you do?" Evy asked politely
"Oh, well. Guess their both not a total loss."
"I beg your pardon." Evy said indigently.
The warden shouted something in Arabic before looking to the three.
"I'll be back in a moment." The Warden moves away.
"Sure, take your time." Nubia says smiling as she watches him go.
"Ask him about the box."Jonathan says to Evy
"We have found…" Evy stopped when she noticed the man wasn't paying attention. "Hello, excuse me. We three found your puzzle box, and we've come to ask you about it."
"No." The prisoner told her
"No?" Evy looked disappointed.
"No." The prisioner said shaking his head. "You came to ask me about Hamunaptra."
Jon shushed him as Evy went closer while Evy and Nubia look at him surprised.
How do you know the box pertains to Hamunaptra? Nubia ask him.
"Because that's where I found it. I was there."
"That's impossible."Nubia says surprised.
"Wanna bet?" The prisioner ask her.
"Do not get so excited, who knows if he tells the truth." Evy warns her.
"No, because if he found Hamunaptra, I have the opportunity to find names of unknown pharaohs." Nubia looks at Evy with enthusiasm.
"But how do we know that's not a load of pig's wallow?" Jonathan asked him moving over to the cell.
"Don't I know you?" The prisioner asks Jonathan, suspiciously.
"No, no, I just got one of those faces." Jonathan looks at him nervously.
The prisoner's eyes widened when he recognized Jonathan and hit him in the face.
"Finally!" Nubia says it's funny to see Jonathan lying on the ground in pain.
"You were actually at Hamunaptra?" Evy asks as she approaches the prisoner.
"I just decked your brother"
"Yes, well." Evy looks at her brother for a moment. "I know him." Seeing him again" Please answer my question. "
The prisioner almost smiles.
"Yeah, I was there."
"You swear?" Evy asks.
"Every damn day." he joked.
"No, I didn't mean that…" Evy didn't get the joke.
"I know." he told her. "I was there, Seti's place. City of the Dead."
"What did you find? What did you see?" Nubia asks.
"I found sand. I saw death."
"Could you tell us how to get there?" Evy asked him.
The prisioner blinked and looked at the two women in disbelief, Evy turned at the sound of the warden shouting before taking off her hat and hiding her face as if to keep from warden finding out the information.
"I mean, the exact location." she said.
"You want to know?" he asked her.
"Well, yes." Evy said.
"Do you really want to know?" he asked.
"Yes." Evy leaned forward.
"Evy." Nubia warned, but she ignored her.
The prisioner gave her the signal to come closer, and like a naïve child she did so. The man gripped her chin, pulled her forward and kissed her.
"Then get me out of here!" he growled as he punched a guard. "Do it, ladies!"
Evy remained stunned and Nubia didn't blame her. The warden came running back to see the commotion.
"Where are they taking him?" Evy asked urgently.
"To be hanged." The Warden said. "Apparently, he had a very good time!"
Hundreds of impure prisoners observe how the prisoner is taken to the gallows. Evelyn and Nubia follow The Warden to a balcony. All the prisoners are silent when they look at them. Like jackals looking at fresh meat.
"No women allowed." The Warden warns them.
"We are English women." Evy says as she sits on one chair and Nubia on another.
This seems to confuse the Warden, he shrugs and sits down. From there the three could see how the hangman placed the rope around the prisoner's neck.
"I will give you 100 pounds to spare his life." Evy tells the man the Warden
"Madame, I would pay 100 pounds just to see him hang."
"Two hundred pounds." Nubia said.
"Proceed!" The Warden orders.
"Three hundred pounds!" Evy said.
"Any last requests, pig?" the hangman ask.
"Yeah, I'd like ya to let me go"
"He wants me to let him go." the hangman tells the Warden
"Of course we don't let him go!"
"Five hundred pounds!" Evy says to him
"Evy." Nubia warned her and the man stopped the guards
"And what else? I'm a very lonely man." The Warden said and put his hand on Evy's leg but she instantly whacked his wondering hand with her book which made all the inmates that were watching to laugh at the warden. "Yalla tlak!"
"NOOO!" both scream.
The prisoner falls through the hole and hangs up, but miraculously he is still alive.
"His neck did not break." The warden laughed. "Oh, I am so sorry, now, we must watch him strangle to death."
"He knows the location to Hamunaptra." Evy tells the Warden and he looked at her
"Evy!" Nubia shouted.
"You lie."
"I would never!" Evy defended
"Are you telling me this filthy, godless son of a pig knows where to find the City of the Dead?" He asked her
"Yes!"
"Truly?" He asked
"Yes! And if you cut him down, we will give you..." Evy thought for a second. "Ten percent."
"Fifty percent."
"Twenty." Evy said
"Forty."
"Thirty!" Evy told him
"Twenty-five."
"Ah ha!" Nubia said quickly. "Deal."
Evy smiled at her friend, while the warden, realizing what he just did, swore in Arabic.
"CUT HIM DOWN!"
The man did as he was ordered, and the crowd cheered. Evy and Nubia looked down at the man, proudly that they were able to save his life.
"I hope you keep your word." Nubia says while accompanying the prisoner to the exit of the prison along with Evy and Jonathan.
"I will do it." he says as he grabs the money Jonathan gives him. "Now I just have to go to my house for some things ... if I still have a house."
"We'll see you tomorrow before nine in the morning." Evy says smiling and he nods. "Now, what's your name?"
"Richard O'Connell, but call me Rick." He keeps his things that were confiscated. "See you tomorrow." walking away.
"I hope I do not regret this." Evy tells Nubia.
"Better repent for promising that fat man twenty-five percent." Nubia says something funny.
"You did what?!" Jonathan looks at his sister surprised.
"EVY!" Hana screams as she approaches them with a suitcase. "EVY, NUBIA, JONATHAN!"
"Hana!" They say surprised to see her.
"You got it?" Jonathan asks.
"Yes." Hana shows the box. "The map is inside." handing it to Evy. "Could you find him?"
"Yes, and get ready, we're leaving tomorrow morning." Nubia smiles.
Cairo Museum of Antiquities
Mr. Bey's office was lit only by a few candles, in front of his large desk there were three horrible, blue-skinned, Medjai facial tattoos, but one of them has a rusty metal clamp instead of a hand.
"They must die." Mr. Bey tells the Medjai.
They will be like the others, they will die in the desert." The hook medjai says softly.
"No! they have already seen too much. They knows too much." Mr. Bey said with fear in his eyes. "They have the key."
"The key!?" The Medjais say without being able to believe it.
"Hana, my niece took it out of my office with the map and took them, she will surely go with them to Hamunaptra." Mr. Bey says more worried and scared.
"The fiancee of one of our leaders is with them?" The Medjai hook says surprised and Mr. Bey nods. "We told you to tell her the truth!"
"I was about to tell her everything, but ... when I realized she had already left with the key, the map and some of her things." Mr. Bey explains worried. "You have to find her and bring her home."
"And we will, we killed those people and we will bring your niece back." The Medjai hook says quickly.
"And burn the map and retrieve the key." Mr. Bey said
"It will be done. But what of the American expedition?, They leave tomorrow as well." The Medjai hook ask.
"Forget the bumbling Americans, they will be like all the others. without the map to guide them, how can they possibly find Hamunaptra?" Mr. Bey said. "Find my niece and warn her fiancé, if you fail, then he has to do it in person."