Sorry for all the sporadic updates. Play auditions are coming up so my life has been hectic. Also, I know this chapter will be poorly edited. i'm exhausted and can't see. If something makes no sense review or message me so i can try to explain/ edit it.
Chapter 37
House of Preparations
"K… Kat?" I stammered surprised. If I hadn't expected to see her the other day, I certainly didn't expect to see Kat now. Sure, I knew she was good, but not even my housemates knew where we were. How on earth did Kat find me?
"Nina," the con told me with a smile and nod, "Fabian, Osirian."
"Name's Eddie, not Osirian," he growled clearly annoyed by only being identified by the spirit within him. (Though by his protective stance that spirit was rearing its head right about now.) "What are you even doing here, Kat? Last time we met you broke Nina's ribs!"
"Please," the girl told us with the flip of her hair. "I knew you could heal her or I wouldn't have kicked that hard."
"How did you know Eddie could heal?" Fabian replied confused. "Eddie didn't know he could heal."
"Like I told Nina, after we met I realized that not everything was what it seemed. I did some research and eventually met Thoth, who told me all about you."
"You met a sloth?" Eddie repeated having misheard the girl. "How did a sloth talk to you?"
"I think she meant Thoth," Fabian corrected. "As in the god of knowledge. But how did you know to find us here when you just got out on bail?"
"Like I said, I'm friends with Thoth, he's a messenger god and sent me a tip as soon as he heard from Hanet. Apparently gods are required to report to either Anubis or Osiris when they reveal themselves to you; don't ask me why. I just got the message of where you were and what you needed to do. I think I might be of assistance."
"You're right," I told her with a nod. "We need to break into the Tutankhamen Exhibit in Dorchester. Everything is a replica there so it shouldn't have that much security, but we could use some help."
"That place," Kat scoffed at the thought. "Easy as pie. Only problem is that I need to keep my nose above the water. Curators probably have taught all their guards my face by now just in case. I can walk you guys through it though."
"Absolutely not!" A furious Fabian yelled passing back and forth across my room after Kat dropped us back at school. "We can't go and rob an exhibit!"
"We don't really have a choice," Patricia reminded him looking over at her dying boyfriend. "We need the ankh piece and if the necklace is there…"
"Not that I'm trying to be a kill joy…" Amber added, "But what do we know about robbing a museum?"
"Nothing," I told her frankly," But that hasn't stopped us before. Kat has com units we can use so she can tell as exactly what to do. Attach a few cameras on to ourselves and we can go right in. Between some long overdue good luck and Kat's help we probably can get the necklace without being arrested."
"I still think it's a horrible idea," Fabian reminded before giving me an exhausted look. "But it does seem like our only option."
"Why don't we take a vote?" Eddie suggested. "Alfie and KT are downstairs keeping Victor happy of our disbandment, but tomorrow we can all meet at the clearing and vote on whether or not we should get together a team and do the job."
No one had any logical objections to that so we went our separate ways for the night. Victor breathing down our necks and looking for Sibuna meetings had certainly got old very, very, quickly. I missed the days when we worried about getting yelled at and not getting arrested. Back then Victor wasn't going to expel my friends for talking to me. Now that very much seemed to be the case.
"All in favor of us getting together a team," I asked the next afternoon around our sacred Sibuna fire. Alfie, Eddie, Patricia, and Ambers hands went up while Fabian, KT and I voted against it. I liked Kat, but she had some sort of long-game in her head that I hated to be a pawn of. Still, we'd lost and I wasn't going to back out of our democratic decision.
"Okay then," Eddie said with a nod.
"I want to help you guys," KT added looking guilty, "But there is a big difference between risking expulsion and risking jail. I'm not going to be a part of the team that goes in."
"Amber shouldn't be either," Alfie pointed out causing the girl to scowl. (She still wasn't over the whole Walfie thing.) "I'm sorry, but you're a cluts and will probably get us all caught. I'm not going either for the same reasons."
"So once again it's up to you four," Amber told us her normal jealousy of exclusion gone with our high-level mission. We'd done many dangerous things in our days, but this was real world and just felt like so much more.
"The first step is simple," Kat told us later that day when we met in the local park. "This Saturday you will go to the museum as tourists and scout out the place. Now from its schematics I've come up with a plan, but if you get there and see it's not going to work we need to call it off ASAP." I understood what Kat meant. If anything looked like it could go wrong and we didn't prepare for it then it would go wrong. "Now there is enough death energy around the tomb itself for you to do the hand through stone thing, but be careful because it won't last as long as it would with a real tomb. As for getting into the museum itself I'll disable the alarm system and give you the guard patterns. I have friend who can get that for me by the weekend."
"So basically all we need to do Saturday is show up?" Patricia asked suspiciously. I hoped that the girl's aversion to the con was because Patricia hated all strangers, but I worried that there was something deeper there that I was missing. Kat acted helpful and innocent, but she had incredible skills. She was the world's best con artist and I could only hope we wouldn't be lured into her largest game yet.