Chapter Six
The next morning, Alex was up as the sun rose in the sky. Alex jumped out of bed, and ran over to Jennifer, who was still sleeping. Her face was ridden with worry, a bad dream Alex guessed. Alex shook his new friend, eager to play with her and Horus some more. Jennifer opened her eyes, startled; her breathing was quick and heavy. She looked at her nephew, waiting for her breath to return to normal; however, her heart was beating like crazy.
Noticing the look of worry on Alex's face she said, "Bad dream."
Alex nodded. "Yeah, I used to have bad dreams too. But last night I didn't have any, you kept the ghosts away." He said happily and threw his arms around her shoulders, hugging her.
Surprised, Jennifer hugged him back. She felt the first hint of a "protection instinct" for the young boy. Alex pulled away from his aunt.
Jennifer looked out the window to see the sun rise. "Alex, it's so early. What are you doing up so early like this?" She asked.
Alex shrugged. "I always get up this early." He answered and crawled over to his toy box. "Let's play with my trucks some more." He said and opened the box.
Jennifer helped Alex take his trucks out and he laid them on the ground. Jennifer looked at all his different trucks; some were large, like the truck that they had pulled Horus around in yesterday and some were small, no bigger then matchboxes but longer. Horus flapped over to the trucks and sat on a fire truck; he flapped his wings and screeched. Alex and Jennifer laughed. Alex finished taking all his trucks out.
He picked up one of the small trucks and handed it to Jennifer. "You can have this one; my Mum got it for me a couple years ago." Alex said.
Jennifer took the truck. "Alex, I can't take this one. Your mum got it for you." Jennifer said and tried to give it back.
"Right but she's your sister, you can have it. My mum and dad got me lots of other trucks too." Alex said.
Jennifer smiled and placed the truck by her rucksack. After Alex, Jennifer and Horus played with Alex's trucks for a while, they decided that they were hungry. Since only about an hour had gone by, everyone else in the manor was still asleep; Alex suggested that they make breakfast together. Jennifer agreed and went in the bathroom to change out of her nightgown. Alex also changed out of his bedclothes in his room; Jennifer went back into Alex's room to put her nightgown in her rucksack. She picked up the truck he had given her and slipped it in her pocket, like a good luck totem and joined Alex at the stairs. Quietly they walked down the stairs and into the kitchen; Alex, who was not tall enough to reach the countertops, pulled one of the chairs at the dinner table and pulled it up to the counter. Jennifer joined Alex at the counter.
"What do you want for breakfast?" She asked him.
Alex thought for a minute. "Eggs and pancakes. Blueberry pancakes." Alex answered, looking at his aunt.
Jennifer thought for a minute; she could make eggs but pancakes that would be a task. However she nodded and told Alex to take out ingredients.
"Eggs, flour, butter, umm other things you need to make pancakes. Oh yeah, blueberries." Jennifer said.
Alex ran around the kitchen getting the things Jennifer asked for. Horus flew into the kitchen –he had still been asleep when Jennifer and Alex left- and landed on the counter. He screeched and began to preen his feathers; Jennifer stroked his feathers as Alex piled the ingredients on the counter.
Jennifer stared at the pile in front of her. "Let's get started. Let's see." Jennifer mutterer and picked up the bag of flour; she turned to Alex. "Would you get me a bowl?" Jennifer asked, she still hadn't learned where everything in the house was.
Alex climbed off his chair and reached under one of the cabinets and pulled out a large mixing bowl. He carried it to Jennifer. "Here." He said.
Jennifer said "thank you" and took the bowl. She placed it on the counter and opened the flour. She meant to pour just a little into the mixing bowl but when she tilted the bag nearly all the flour poured into the bowl. It made of "cloud of flour" which gathered on Alex and Jennifer's clothes. "Okay", Jennifer muttered, "next." She said and reached for the eggs. Alex and Jennifer both took an egg; Jennifer cracked hers carefully on the side of the bowl. Alex couldn't crack his to he cracked it on the counter; the egg yoke fell onto the kitchen floor. Alex looked down at the yoke and then guiltily back up at Jennifer.
"That's okay, we'll clean that up later." Jennifer said.
Alex smiled and no longer looked sad over the lost egg. Jennifer helped Alex crack another egg, this one got in the bowl. "Right, now I think we need to make the batter." Jennifer said. She and Alex added the butter and other things into the bowl then Alex got a large wooden mixing spoon. She stirred the ingredients until they become a creamy, pasty batter. Jennifer smiled, proud with herself, she had managed to get this far.
"Okay, we need to turn on the stove and get a pan. I'll get the pan and turn on the stove and you put the blueberries in the batter okay." Jennifer instructed her young nephew.
Alex happily began dropping blueberries into the pancake batter. The batter around the blueberries became blue with blueberry juice.
After a slight process Jennifer managed to get the stove on; she placed a large black pan on one of the burners. "Alright, Alex, bring the batter-bowl over here." Jennifer said.
Alex carried to bowl over to her; some of the batter was sloshing over the sides. There was enough batter in the bowl to make over twenty medium sized pancakes. Alex set the bowl on the counter beside the stove and drug his chair over beside Jennifer. Jennifer took the bowl and spooned batter into the pan; she spooned too much of the batter into the pan. The batter filled the entire pan; Alex and Jennifer looked at each other.
"It'll just be a really big pancake." Jennifer told her nephew. Horus screeched in agreement.
Alex nodded and turned his attention the pancake. The batter was expanding with the heat of the pan and was overlapping the sides; some of the none cooked batter trickled down the sides of the pan.
"We can clean that up." Jennifer muttered. The batter popped and bubbled on the pan. Some of the bubbles popped and batter got all over Jennifer and Alex's already flour covered clothes.
Alex pointed to the bubbles. "Is it supposed to do that?" He asked, concerned.
Jennifer shrugged; she was already aware that they had made a huge mess in the kitchen in a sort while.
Within minutes Jennifer and Alex's first pancake was burned to a crisp. Jennifer prodded it with the wooden spoon, getting laughter from Alex. She turned to Alex with a serous look on her face. "I think it's dead." She said, as serous as she could.
Alex just laughed some more; Jennifer pried the charred pancake off the pan and dumped it in the garbage can. "We have more batter." Jennifer said.
To move the batter out of the way, Jennifer had placed the bowl amidst the remains of the ingredients. Jennifer walked over to the counter to get the bowl, which Horus had perched upon; his talons curved around the rim of the bowl.
"Move Horus, I need the bowl." Jennifer said. Horus screeched –it was a wonder, Jennifer thought, that her sister and Rick hadn't woken up yet- and flew off the bowl. Jennifer watched Horus, who had perched upon the open bag of flour; the bag was leaning with Horus's weight. Horus was watching the bowl contently; Jennifer knew he was "up to something". Jennifer reached for the bowl, that's when things got out of control. Horus dive-bombed his owner, right for the bowl. He landed in the bowl, like a puppy would lay in mud- his wings flapping, sending batter everywhere. He was screeched for all he was worth and flaying in the batter.
"Horus!" Jennifer yelled. Alex was having another fit of laughter. Jennifer's yelling sent Horus into flight; he flew out of the bowl, trailing batter everywhere. The bowl upset and spilled all over the floor and down Jennifer's shirt; she was too busy, however, to notice. Horus was making circles in the air; batter was falling from his silk feathers. Jennifer couldn't understand what her bird was doing, other then making a huge mess. Horus flew over to where Alex was, the poor boy looked like he was about to die laughing, and perched by the stove.
Jennifer sighed and walked toward him but slipped on the batter that had fallen onto the floor. Jennifer reached up onto the counter, trying to keep her balance but it was no use; she slipped onto the floor. She did, however, manage to knock the carton of eggs off the counter. The carton was already open so when it fell, eggs splattered everywhere. From Jennifer's position on the floor most of the eggs fell on her instead of the ground. Jennifer just sighed and lay on the ground, egg running down her back and throw her hair; Alex was still laughing and Horus was screeching some more.
Hopefully she and Alex could clean up the mess before Rick and Evelyn woke up so they would never have to know about the little "fiasco". However, as luck would have it, at that moment Rick and his wife walked into the kitchen.
Immediately Alex stopped laughing and looked up at his father; Jennifer also looked over to her nephew's parents. Rick looked angry and Evelyn looked confused but also angry. Horus stopped screeching and flew over to Jennifer; he landed beside her head and crawled onto her back.
Rick was first to speak. "What happened here?" He asked. His kitchen, perfectly clean last night, was now in shambles. Jennifer stood up, not bothering to brush herself off.
Rick turned to face his son. "Alexander O'Connell was this your idea? Because if it was…" Rick began.
"No, it was my idea." Jennifer spoke up; she couldn't stand to see Alex in trouble. "I got hungry and Alex and I came downstairs. Alex had nothing to do with it, I'm sorry." Jennifer finished.
Alex looked at her surprised, it had all been his idea and she was getting in trouble for it.
Rick looked anger then he had when he found her out in the garden last night. "Well then, you will clean every inch of the kitchen." Rick began.
Evelyn looked upset. "Rick…" She began but Rick cut her off.
"Until it looks the way it did this morning." He said and without another word he left. Evelyn and Alex looked helpless at Jennifer.
Both her sister and her nephew offered to help her clean the kitchen but Jennifer refused. "That's alright, it won't take too long. I hope." Jennifer said.
Leaving Jennifer (poor Jennifer, Alex said) at home to clean the kitchen, Rick, Evelyn, Alex and Jonathan went out for breakfast since there was no way to cook in "such a messy kitchen".
Jennifer sighed and spent ten minutes teaching Horus to hold a sponge with his talons. Once Horus had mastered the sponge holding Jennifer explained to him that this was his mess and they were going to clean it together. By watching his master, Horus learned how to clean with the sponge. Together, an odd team, Jennifer and Horus managed to clean the kitchen spotless, like Rick told her to.
Once that was done, Jennifer took Horus out into the gardens; her falcon was still covered, tail feather to beak almost, in batter. She found the watering can without much difficulty and filled it with water. By now the batter had caked in his feathers and under his feathers and all over him so Jennifer spent over an hour cleaning him. She still wasn't finished when she heard the front door open and shut and heard Alex's footsteps running toward the kitchen. Jennifer ran her fingers through Horus's feathers and poured water on him. Horus screeched and flapped his wings, spraying her with water.
Seconds later Alex had found her and her bird out in the garden. "Can I help you wash Horus?" He asked. Jennifer nodded and showed him how to get the batter of his feathers.
Inside the manor, Rick was telling his beloved wife that he had had enough of Jennifer, even though she had only been there a day and half.
"Rick, give her another chance. I'm sure she didn't mean to make a mess in the kitchen, not like that and I'm not sure that it was her idea." Evelyn said, looking pleadingly at her husband.
"Evy, whether it was her idea or not she has some 'bad qualities' and I don't want her rubbing off on Alex." Rick said, averting his eyes from his wife.
Evelyn frowned. "'Bad qualities', Rick she is my sister." Evelyn said.
"Yes, but Jonathan is your brother." Rick retorted.
Evelyn frowned and sighed. She realized that once Rick had his mind set on something, there was no way to change it. She turned around and walked into the parlor without saying a word to Rick.
Rick frowned and slumped down on the couch. Now Evelyn was mad at him, maybe Jennifer wasn't as bad as he thought she was but he didn't want to take the chance.
Outside, Alex and Jennifer had managed to get Horus cleaned. Jennifer realized that she hadn't been able to change clothes yet. With Horus perched on her shoulder, Jennifer and Alex left the gardens and went into the manor. Rick was still sitting on the couch but he didn't look at Jennifer or Alex when the came up the stairs and headed to his room. Jennifer pulled a clean shirt from her rucksack as well as clean shorts and headed into the bathroom, leaving Alex in his room to play with Horus. Jennifer changed clothes and placed the little truck Alex had given her in her clean shorts pocket. She looked at herself in the mirror and frowned. Batter and egg were all dried in her hair; she bent her head into the sink basin and turned the water on. After fifteen minutes of scrubbing and pulling out "bed-tangles", Jennifer lifted her head. She felt a rush of dizziness but it quickly went away; her hair was clean now but it was wet and tangled. It fell messily down her face and down her back.
Jennifer left the bathroom –taking her soiled clothes with her- and joined Alex back in his room. Alex had gathered up lots of his trucks. "Jennifer, lets go outside and play with my trucks in the garden. I'll show you my tree-fort too." Alex said, happily.
Horus flew onto Jennifer's shoulder; she helped the boy with some of his trucks and then they went outside.
Jennifer failed to notice that when she pulled her clothes out of her rucksack the small Anubis statue had fallen out. Now that everyone was out of the room Anubis decided to make his appearance. He reverted to his true form and growled; today he was going to make the O'Connells take him to Amh-Shre.
The next morning, Alex was up as the sun rose in the sky. Alex jumped out of bed, and ran over to Jennifer, who was still sleeping. Her face was ridden with worry, a bad dream Alex guessed. Alex shook his new friend, eager to play with her and Horus some more. Jennifer opened her eyes, startled; her breathing was quick and heavy. She looked at her nephew, waiting for her breath to return to normal; however, her heart was beating like crazy.
Noticing the look of worry on Alex's face she said, "Bad dream."
Alex nodded. "Yeah, I used to have bad dreams too. But last night I didn't have any, you kept the ghosts away." He said happily and threw his arms around her shoulders, hugging her.
Surprised, Jennifer hugged him back. She felt the first hint of a "protection instinct" for the young boy. Alex pulled away from his aunt.
Jennifer looked out the window to see the sun rise. "Alex, it's so early. What are you doing up so early like this?" She asked.
Alex shrugged. "I always get up this early." He answered and crawled over to his toy box. "Let's play with my trucks some more." He said and opened the box.
Jennifer helped Alex take his trucks out and he laid them on the ground. Jennifer looked at all his different trucks; some were large, like the truck that they had pulled Horus around in yesterday and some were small, no bigger then matchboxes but longer. Horus flapped over to the trucks and sat on a fire truck; he flapped his wings and screeched. Alex and Jennifer laughed. Alex finished taking all his trucks out.
He picked up one of the small trucks and handed it to Jennifer. "You can have this one; my Mum got it for me a couple years ago." Alex said.
Jennifer took the truck. "Alex, I can't take this one. Your mum got it for you." Jennifer said and tried to give it back.
"Right but she's your sister, you can have it. My mum and dad got me lots of other trucks too." Alex said.
Jennifer smiled and placed the truck by her rucksack. After Alex, Jennifer and Horus played with Alex's trucks for a while, they decided that they were hungry. Since only about an hour had gone by, everyone else in the manor was still asleep; Alex suggested that they make breakfast together. Jennifer agreed and went in the bathroom to change out of her nightgown. Alex also changed out of his bedclothes in his room; Jennifer went back into Alex's room to put her nightgown in her rucksack. She picked up the truck he had given her and slipped it in her pocket, like a good luck totem and joined Alex at the stairs. Quietly they walked down the stairs and into the kitchen; Alex, who was not tall enough to reach the countertops, pulled one of the chairs at the dinner table and pulled it up to the counter. Jennifer joined Alex at the counter.
"What do you want for breakfast?" She asked him.
Alex thought for a minute. "Eggs and pancakes. Blueberry pancakes." Alex answered, looking at his aunt.
Jennifer thought for a minute; she could make eggs but pancakes that would be a task. However she nodded and told Alex to take out ingredients.
"Eggs, flour, butter, umm other things you need to make pancakes. Oh yeah, blueberries." Jennifer said.
Alex ran around the kitchen getting the things Jennifer asked for. Horus flew into the kitchen –he had still been asleep when Jennifer and Alex left- and landed on the counter. He screeched and began to preen his feathers; Jennifer stroked his feathers as Alex piled the ingredients on the counter.
Jennifer stared at the pile in front of her. "Let's get started. Let's see." Jennifer mutterer and picked up the bag of flour; she turned to Alex. "Would you get me a bowl?" Jennifer asked, she still hadn't learned where everything in the house was.
Alex climbed off his chair and reached under one of the cabinets and pulled out a large mixing bowl. He carried it to Jennifer. "Here." He said.
Jennifer said "thank you" and took the bowl. She placed it on the counter and opened the flour. She meant to pour just a little into the mixing bowl but when she tilted the bag nearly all the flour poured into the bowl. It made of "cloud of flour" which gathered on Alex and Jennifer's clothes. "Okay", Jennifer muttered, "next." She said and reached for the eggs. Alex and Jennifer both took an egg; Jennifer cracked hers carefully on the side of the bowl. Alex couldn't crack his to he cracked it on the counter; the egg yoke fell onto the kitchen floor. Alex looked down at the yoke and then guiltily back up at Jennifer.
"That's okay, we'll clean that up later." Jennifer said.
Alex smiled and no longer looked sad over the lost egg. Jennifer helped Alex crack another egg, this one got in the bowl. "Right, now I think we need to make the batter." Jennifer said. She and Alex added the butter and other things into the bowl then Alex got a large wooden mixing spoon. She stirred the ingredients until they become a creamy, pasty batter. Jennifer smiled, proud with herself, she had managed to get this far.
"Okay, we need to turn on the stove and get a pan. I'll get the pan and turn on the stove and you put the blueberries in the batter okay." Jennifer instructed her young nephew.
Alex happily began dropping blueberries into the pancake batter. The batter around the blueberries became blue with blueberry juice.
After a slight process Jennifer managed to get the stove on; she placed a large black pan on one of the burners. "Alright, Alex, bring the batter-bowl over here." Jennifer said.
Alex carried to bowl over to her; some of the batter was sloshing over the sides. There was enough batter in the bowl to make over twenty medium sized pancakes. Alex set the bowl on the counter beside the stove and drug his chair over beside Jennifer. Jennifer took the bowl and spooned batter into the pan; she spooned too much of the batter into the pan. The batter filled the entire pan; Alex and Jennifer looked at each other.
"It'll just be a really big pancake." Jennifer told her nephew. Horus screeched in agreement.
Alex nodded and turned his attention the pancake. The batter was expanding with the heat of the pan and was overlapping the sides; some of the none cooked batter trickled down the sides of the pan.
"We can clean that up." Jennifer muttered. The batter popped and bubbled on the pan. Some of the bubbles popped and batter got all over Jennifer and Alex's already flour covered clothes.
Alex pointed to the bubbles. "Is it supposed to do that?" He asked, concerned.
Jennifer shrugged; she was already aware that they had made a huge mess in the kitchen in a sort while.
Within minutes Jennifer and Alex's first pancake was burned to a crisp. Jennifer prodded it with the wooden spoon, getting laughter from Alex. She turned to Alex with a serous look on her face. "I think it's dead." She said, as serous as she could.
Alex just laughed some more; Jennifer pried the charred pancake off the pan and dumped it in the garbage can. "We have more batter." Jennifer said.
To move the batter out of the way, Jennifer had placed the bowl amidst the remains of the ingredients. Jennifer walked over to the counter to get the bowl, which Horus had perched upon; his talons curved around the rim of the bowl.
"Move Horus, I need the bowl." Jennifer said. Horus screeched –it was a wonder, Jennifer thought, that her sister and Rick hadn't woken up yet- and flew off the bowl. Jennifer watched Horus, who had perched upon the open bag of flour; the bag was leaning with Horus's weight. Horus was watching the bowl contently; Jennifer knew he was "up to something". Jennifer reached for the bowl, that's when things got out of control. Horus dive-bombed his owner, right for the bowl. He landed in the bowl, like a puppy would lay in mud- his wings flapping, sending batter everywhere. He was screeched for all he was worth and flaying in the batter.
"Horus!" Jennifer yelled. Alex was having another fit of laughter. Jennifer's yelling sent Horus into flight; he flew out of the bowl, trailing batter everywhere. The bowl upset and spilled all over the floor and down Jennifer's shirt; she was too busy, however, to notice. Horus was making circles in the air; batter was falling from his silk feathers. Jennifer couldn't understand what her bird was doing, other then making a huge mess. Horus flew over to where Alex was, the poor boy looked like he was about to die laughing, and perched by the stove.
Jennifer sighed and walked toward him but slipped on the batter that had fallen onto the floor. Jennifer reached up onto the counter, trying to keep her balance but it was no use; she slipped onto the floor. She did, however, manage to knock the carton of eggs off the counter. The carton was already open so when it fell, eggs splattered everywhere. From Jennifer's position on the floor most of the eggs fell on her instead of the ground. Jennifer just sighed and lay on the ground, egg running down her back and throw her hair; Alex was still laughing and Horus was screeching some more.
Hopefully she and Alex could clean up the mess before Rick and Evelyn woke up so they would never have to know about the little "fiasco". However, as luck would have it, at that moment Rick and his wife walked into the kitchen.
Immediately Alex stopped laughing and looked up at his father; Jennifer also looked over to her nephew's parents. Rick looked angry and Evelyn looked confused but also angry. Horus stopped screeching and flew over to Jennifer; he landed beside her head and crawled onto her back.
Rick was first to speak. "What happened here?" He asked. His kitchen, perfectly clean last night, was now in shambles. Jennifer stood up, not bothering to brush herself off.
Rick turned to face his son. "Alexander O'Connell was this your idea? Because if it was…" Rick began.
"No, it was my idea." Jennifer spoke up; she couldn't stand to see Alex in trouble. "I got hungry and Alex and I came downstairs. Alex had nothing to do with it, I'm sorry." Jennifer finished.
Alex looked at her surprised, it had all been his idea and she was getting in trouble for it.
Rick looked anger then he had when he found her out in the garden last night. "Well then, you will clean every inch of the kitchen." Rick began.
Evelyn looked upset. "Rick…" She began but Rick cut her off.
"Until it looks the way it did this morning." He said and without another word he left. Evelyn and Alex looked helpless at Jennifer.
Both her sister and her nephew offered to help her clean the kitchen but Jennifer refused. "That's alright, it won't take too long. I hope." Jennifer said.
Leaving Jennifer (poor Jennifer, Alex said) at home to clean the kitchen, Rick, Evelyn, Alex and Jonathan went out for breakfast since there was no way to cook in "such a messy kitchen".
Jennifer sighed and spent ten minutes teaching Horus to hold a sponge with his talons. Once Horus had mastered the sponge holding Jennifer explained to him that this was his mess and they were going to clean it together. By watching his master, Horus learned how to clean with the sponge. Together, an odd team, Jennifer and Horus managed to clean the kitchen spotless, like Rick told her to.
Once that was done, Jennifer took Horus out into the gardens; her falcon was still covered, tail feather to beak almost, in batter. She found the watering can without much difficulty and filled it with water. By now the batter had caked in his feathers and under his feathers and all over him so Jennifer spent over an hour cleaning him. She still wasn't finished when she heard the front door open and shut and heard Alex's footsteps running toward the kitchen. Jennifer ran her fingers through Horus's feathers and poured water on him. Horus screeched and flapped his wings, spraying her with water.
Seconds later Alex had found her and her bird out in the garden. "Can I help you wash Horus?" He asked. Jennifer nodded and showed him how to get the batter of his feathers.
Inside the manor, Rick was telling his beloved wife that he had had enough of Jennifer, even though she had only been there a day and half.
"Rick, give her another chance. I'm sure she didn't mean to make a mess in the kitchen, not like that and I'm not sure that it was her idea." Evelyn said, looking pleadingly at her husband.
"Evy, whether it was her idea or not she has some 'bad qualities' and I don't want her rubbing off on Alex." Rick said, averting his eyes from his wife.
Evelyn frowned. "'Bad qualities', Rick she is my sister." Evelyn said.
"Yes, but Jonathan is your brother." Rick retorted.
Evelyn frowned and sighed. She realized that once Rick had his mind set on something, there was no way to change it. She turned around and walked into the parlor without saying a word to Rick.
Rick frowned and slumped down on the couch. Now Evelyn was mad at him, maybe Jennifer wasn't as bad as he thought she was but he didn't want to take the chance.
Outside, Alex and Jennifer had managed to get Horus cleaned. Jennifer realized that she hadn't been able to change clothes yet. With Horus perched on her shoulder, Jennifer and Alex left the gardens and went into the manor. Rick was still sitting on the couch but he didn't look at Jennifer or Alex when the came up the stairs and headed to his room. Jennifer pulled a clean shirt from her rucksack as well as clean shorts and headed into the bathroom, leaving Alex in his room to play with Horus. Jennifer changed clothes and placed the little truck Alex had given her in her clean shorts pocket. She looked at herself in the mirror and frowned. Batter and egg were all dried in her hair; she bent her head into the sink basin and turned the water on. After fifteen minutes of scrubbing and pulling out "bed-tangles", Jennifer lifted her head. She felt a rush of dizziness but it quickly went away; her hair was clean now but it was wet and tangled. It fell messily down her face and down her back.
Jennifer left the bathroom –taking her soiled clothes with her- and joined Alex back in his room. Alex had gathered up lots of his trucks. "Jennifer, lets go outside and play with my trucks in the garden. I'll show you my tree-fort too." Alex said, happily.
Horus flew onto Jennifer's shoulder; she helped the boy with some of his trucks and then they went outside.
Jennifer failed to notice that when she pulled her clothes out of her rucksack the small Anubis statue had fallen out. Now that everyone was out of the room Anubis decided to make his appearance. He reverted to his true form and growled; today he was going to make the O'Connells take him to Amh-Shre.