-Kyra Teal-
A small earthquake woke me up immediately. My heart raced as I grabbed my robe and rushed downstairs. "Release him!" I could vividly hear Carter yell out.
If there is anything I've learned being a magician in the Per Ankh, it's knowing when to panic when the Chief Lector and or Pharaoh do as well. I perched myself on the stairs to take in a familiar mud seeping through the floorboards with each second. A sudden explosion sounded from the Great Room. I decided to continue forward by jumping to the small table in the lobby and placed a spell to move it towards the entrance.
"Struggling with the inevitable will make your suffering worse, Kane!" A woman's voice snarled.
The way she spoke his name instantly placed her as the voice that scared the hell out of Amos and I in Rome. I peered in to see Carter in his glowing avatar flying around the room, avoiding the mud being flung at him from the floor and going for a strike at a figure above the floor. It rose it's right hand in response and wrapped it's hand around Carter's neck, strangling the avatar to nothing in seconds.
"You Gods are pathetic beings," she snarled as she tossed him to the floor, letting the mud pull him in.
I notched my arrow and aimed for her head, taking a deep breath before releasing. It struck my target, earning a glare from the woman-like figure. Then in seconds, the mud pulled the arrow into her head as she laughed. "Is that the best you can do?" She mocked, as I stood paralyzed.
"Evacuate!" Carter screamed before the mud pulled him completely under.
"Oh yes, please do." Gaia grinned towards me, "I'll be taking this Nome down as well. Go tell the others of my great power, the threat Romans and Greeks are."
A bright blue hieroglyph for clay appeared above the figure, which obviously responded by solidifying, the floor returning to normal. I turned to find Zia and Alyssa filled with fear to the sight they just witnessed. "You heard her, let's wake everyone else up and get out," I instructed instantly, taking in that I had no one to turn to other than myself to lead them.
