Chapter 4
When we arrived at the village, Evy and I were swept away by the women, we were taken into tents, were they took all our clothes and bathed us. I tried to cover myself but the women only pushed my arms and hands aside to wash me, once that embarrassing bath was over they dressed us in a Bedouin, Evy's was a dark blue, while mine was a charcoal black.
"We could have given them Evy or Amirah and he would have given us the camels for free." I slapped O'Connell on the arm as he chuckled, "Tempting as it is O'Connell, I do not think Evy would like to be sold for four camels." I smiled at O'Connell as I took the reins of the camel and walked off.
The ride to Hamunaptra was long, the next morning before the sun even rose we met up with the Americans, "remember our bet O'Connell, first one to Hamunaptra gets 500 dollars." I looked at O'Connell as he shifted on the camel, his eyes were fixed on the vast desert in front of us. "Here we go." The sun peaked out over the horizon and it illuminated the City of the Dead, we all gasp before we all started to drive our mounts toward the abandoned city. O'Connell and Benni were the ones in the lead while Evy and I were behind them, Benni started whacking O'Connell with his riding stick, O'Connell grabbed Benni by the arm and pulled him off his horse. Evy ran over Benni with her camel, "And that's what you deserve." Evy was the one who made it to Hamunaptra first.
"This is the statue of Anubis, his legs go deep underground, the book is said to be buried under the statue." We entered the ruins through a tunnel, "can you believe it, we are standing in a room that no one has entered three-thousand years." Evy started positioning the mirror's just right so it would catch the light and light up the room. Once the room was lit up we all walked around inspected different things. "Wow, this room is called the Sah-Netjer, this is where they prepared the body for the afterlife." We started to walk around, we went down a tunnel, it was quiet until we heard a noise, we slowly creeped down the tunnel, we came to an open doorway where the noise was coming from. O'Connell was the first one to turn the corner and pull out his gun, Evy, Jonathan and I followed behind O'Connell, the group of Americans were right in front of us and they were pointing their guns at us. "This is our dig site." The group of men started arguing until Evy started kicking some stones down an opening in the floor.
Evy put her hand on O'Connell's arm and gave him a small smile and looked at the Americans, Evy obviously knew something we didn't and O'Connell knew that too, because he put his gun away and followed Evy