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Chapter4

Thumph! Something tumbled out on the roof. To Sadie, standing right behind the door leading to the terrace, it sounded like someone had used the portal. But it was the middle of the night and they weren't expecting anyone. All the initiates stood in formation behind her. Right behind Sadie stood Walt/Anubis being second in charge at the Nome. Behind him stood the older initiates. The youngest initiates were at the other end of the formation. They all stood ready with their wands and swords ready. "Three… Two… One… Charge!" Sadie pushed open the door and they all charged into the night.

Alia couldn't help but wonder if she ought to speak up. She didn't think the Pharaoh and his team would be here so soon. Before she could decide on what to do, Sadie charged through the door. They were met by a blinding flash of light. Ready to charge on this unidentified enemy, Alia raised her sword. It was met with a loud, resounding "Stop!" As if by a spell everyone's weapons came down against their will. The light cleared and her eyes adjusted. Uh, oh! It was the Pharaoh and his magicians. We attacked the Pharaoh. Alia almost missed that Carter had started speaking.

"Sadie, what is the meaning of all this? What's going on?" Carter thundered. "Why didn't you warn us you were coming? I thought it was an intruder. It wasn't like we were expecting anyone. And you being Pharaoh doesn't give you all the rights in the world. You already have the right to decide who I marry, you can't just come around gallivanting when the mood takes you" Sadie worked herself up to a rant.

"Ms. Kane, I know that that you are the Pharaoh's sister but you cannot speak to him in such a way. He is after all your Pharaoh too," spoke up one of the older magicians with Carter. Then he softly continued, "Any personal disagreements you may have can be handled privately. Your relationship ought not to be public affairs." "That's enough. Thank you Mr. Warsh. However we have more important things to discuss right now that should not be talked about here. Let's go inside first," Carter spoke up.

Once in the Great Room, Walt/Anubis addressed Carter formally, "Lord Pharaoh, please forgive us for being out of order. As you are well aware we weren't informed of you visit." Instead of Carter, Amos replied," You weren't supposed to know of this till we arrived." Alia figured it was now or never. That the Egyptian Nome didn't plan on transmitting to Brooklyn she was sure of. So she decided to speak up. "Excuse me," she said meekly. All faces turned to face her. She glanced nervously at Sadie, Walt/Anubis then at Amos and finally Carter. At Carter's nod she began. "I was in charge of receiving all Nome related scrying broadcasts a few hours ago and I," she took a deep breath before continuing, "Our scrying bowl intercepted your broadcast to the Miami Nome." As soon as she said this, there was a deafening silence in the room.

"That's impossible!" the man who Carter called Mr. Warsh said. Alia said nothing. "She has no reason whatsoever to lie about this. We must look into this Jaden," Carter told Mr. Warsh. He turned towards Alia and kindly asked, "What's your name?" Alia bowed and said, "Alia Jefferson, Lord Pharaoh." "Well, Alia Jefferson, I'm Carter Kane. Pleased to meet you. Now, would you please elaborate on what happened a few hours ago? What spell did you use, exactly what you saw?" Carter inquired. He got that the girl was pretty scared and nervous especially around him. He wanted her relaxed enough so that she could talk without worrying and tripping over her words. That was the flip side of his role- people got too scared of him. Sometimes it was helpful, like during interrogations but in times like this, it did more harm than good.

Never in even her wildest dreams had Alia dreamt that the Pharaoh would be talking to her, much less that he would grant her the use of his first name! So she stammered and slowly described everything to her audience.

"The attack has already begun it seems. They must have broken into our broadcasting channels," Amos mused. Jaden countered, "But how is that possible? These channels have been secure for centuries!" Sadie had had enough. "Will somebody please tell me what is going on here? Why are you all here and prepared for a battle? And what attack?" she fired. At last Carter answered his sister's questions. "As you know, the First Nome was attacked. We barely survived it. I expected the Russians to attack again so we had surveillance out on them. Today we received intelligence that they planned to attack here. Having declared emergency, an R-n-R Team from Miami House was requested to meet us here. Mr. Jaden Warsh is the leader of their team. The broadcast which was intercepted here by your young initiate was from Egypt to Miami. This means that they have broken our secure broadcasting channels. They are getting serious. The question now is, since they know that we received a warning that the attack was supposed to be carried out here, and that we are all prepared, where will they attack? Egypt, Brooklyn, Miami or some other random place?" As everyone took in all that Carter said, Walt/Anubis asked, "So what now?"

Carter stared long and hard at him. He didn't want to ask about the proposal in front of everybody and there was no way they could get any privacy here. So he answered in an ominous tone, "Well, we wait and see."