This is what I like to refer to as Noah's arc; her story arc, basically.

25: House of Duo

As Nina kept running around, calling out for whoever had screamed, she wondered if it wasn't a good idea. For all she knew she might be going into a trap of some sort by the mummies, or something. Or this might lure out the mummies.

"Hello?" she called again, stopping and looking both ways down the corridor she had come into. She ran down one way and stopped when she reached the end.

"Noah?" she asked.

"Nina," Noah greeted, "I kind of thought you'd be here, so I came to help."

"Help? I thought you were with the others," she said, "That you didn't want to do this anymore."

"No," she said, "I agreed with you, I just didn't say anything," she said, "But I thought your way was better. If we can solve it, we can do more that way than leaving it unsolved. Especially since we've already started to solve it."

"Right," she said, "That makes sense. Let's do all the work, instead of leaving half of it done for someone else. Then we can at least move whatever it is, or something."
Noah nodded, "Exactly."

"Did you hear a scream?" Nina asked her.

"I did when I came in," she said, "I got worried it was you."

"No," Nina said, "It wasn't me. But I can't find its source."

"Strange," she said, "I guess we might find it eventually."

Nina nodded, "Yeah."

"So, the key," Noah said, "Find anything?"

"No, not yet," she said.

"I'll help," she said.

"I appreciate it," she said, unsure of what help she could be. There was one key, and many doors. But she guessed Noah could check for locked doors.

"Please, lead on," she offered to Nina.

Nina started to walk on, leading the way back to where she had stopped when the scream had occurred. They started their search from there on.

"I've meant to ask," Nina said, looking to Noah as they walked down the hallway, "You used the necklace. How did that happen? I thought only I could."

Noah nodded, "Well, I don't know a lot, but I can tell you what I do know," she said.

"Please do," Nina said. Was it possible that Noah was also a Chosen One?

"Well, I was born in Egypt," she said, "My parents were on vacation, and my mother went into labor there. They were out, though. In the desert as part of a tour. I was born early, so they didn't expect it to happen while they were out like that.

"While they were visiting a pyramid I was being born. A group of people were able to help. Natives to Egypt. They helped my mother give birth to me. But there was more to it, I guess."

"More to it?" Nina asked.

"I was told that these people were part of a group, or something," Noah told Nina.

"What sort of group?" Nina asked.

"They were called the 'Order of Amneris'," she said.

"Amneris?" Nina asked, a little shocked.

She nodded, "Do you know the name?"

"Yeah," she said, "I'm descended from her, being the Chosen One. That's why I can use the necklace."

"I see," Noah said, "I wasn't born at the right time, nor right day. The Order told that to my parents, but they…they felt something, I guess. That's what my mother told me when I was told about all of this. They didn't understand what the Order meant, but those women did something.

"They blessed me as soon as I was born. That, combined with the location they had taken my parents for the birthing apparently give me Amneris's blessing. If being her descendant allows you to use the necklace, I guess having her blessing is enough for me to use it as well."

"Is there anything else you know about this?" Nina asked her.

"No," Noah said, "My parents didn't know a lot, and I never got to ask them. I wasn't really old enough to understand what to ask, and then…then they…they died."

"I'm so sorry," Nina said.

"No, it's fine," Noah said, "I wish I knew more, though. But that's all there is for me to tell you."

"Have you ever looked into the Order?" she asked Noah.

"I tried," she said, "But the internet didn't give me any information."

"I'd like to know more, if we could find more information somehow," Nina said.

"As would I," Noah said, "Because the Order, and whatever they did to me, are the first things that happened to me in my life. Sometimes I wonder if what they did has caused me to be here, and to be involved in all of this?"

"Maybe," Nina said, "But it's a good thing."

"Good and bad," Noah said.

"Mostly good?" Nina asked.

"Mostly good," she said with a nod and smile.

As they kept going and checking the doors, Nina found one that didn't open. She looked to Noah, "I remember this door. We tried to force it open, but chose to stop. If it's locked, it's locked for a reason, we decided."

Noah nodded, "So, the key?"

She put it into the lock, "Well, it fits. This lock is different from the other doors." She turned the key, "It's open!"

Noah hurried over as she opened the door. The two headed inside and closed the door behind them for good measure, looking around, but it was dark.

Nina felt around the wall for support. When her fingers passed over an Eye of Horus symbol, she pulled out her necklace and applied it to the spot. Torches long since dead sprang to life, casting the flickering glow of the flames along the room, lighting it for the two to see.

They looked around the massive library, at the rows and rows of ancient books. They walked over, examining spines, unable to read some, others making sense, while some felt like they would crumble to dust if more than a light touch was used.

"Now what?" Noah wondered to Nina.

"I don't know," she said, looking at the spines, "There has to be something in here that'll lead us on."

"What if this is the end?" Noah asked, "What if the hidden object was here? Or this room?"

She knew that Mr. Wolf sought the Book of Thoth. It would make sense to be in a library like this. But what would she do? Find it and take it to him? Or hide it? Destroy it?

"Noah!" Nina called from a corridor made of shelves.

Noah hurried over, going around the end of a bookshelf to get into the corridor it made. She saw Nina pulling a book free from chest height, walking over with it. It was bound in pale blue, aged, with golden letters across it that were hard to read.

"What is it?" Noah asked.

"It's a book about Amneris," Nina said, showing her the spine. It stated the single word of 'Amneris'. Opening the cover revealed a name.

"Robert Frobisher-Smythe wrote this," Nina said, walking over and placing it on a table.

"Maybe this can give me some answers," Noah said.

"That's what I hope," Nina said.

But before they could get anywhere in the book, they heard a sound coming from the doorway. Looking over they could see a figure slowly approaching. It was the lurching figure of a mummy, along with the slightly better movements of another that they knew had to be Rufus's mummified body.

"What now?" Noah asked.

Nina closed the book, "We have to go," she said, "We'll find our way back again. But we have to go."

They headed towards the door, trying to figure out how to get past, but the two mummies weren't moving far from it.

"They're not going to let us out," Noah said.

"We'll get out," Nina said, looking at a torch.

As soon as she did, the first mummy moved towards her. That created enough of an opening for them to escape from. She ran around the outside of the mummy and headed out the door with Noah, the book slipping from her arm as they ran.

"Do not let them have that knowledge," Mr. Wolf's ghostly voice hissed to the two mummies.

They converge on the book, just as Nina and Noah stopped as Nina realized she had dropped it.