Chapter Eleven
Jennifer led the O'Connells into the dinning car. When they first entered the car, Rick sighed. "We've already searched in here, there's nothing that can help us." He told his wife's sister, whom he still held a strong dislike in.
Jennifer rolled her eyes and headed to the table that she had tried to lift by herself. "This is what we're going to do," Jennifer began, totally ignoring Rick's comment, "someone help me pry this table off the ground. I tried already but I can't do it by myself." Jennifer said, looking at the O'Connells.
"Then what?" Alex asked. "You're not saying we should throw the table threw the window are you?" Alex asked, his eyes growing wide. Jennifer shook her head, surprised. "'Cause that would be cool." Alex muttered.
"We can break one of the table legs off and make a hole in the window. Horus can squeeze through that." Jennifer said and petted her falcon's tail feathers.
Evelyn had warmed up to the idea. "I don't why we didn't think of that before." She muttered.
Together, Jennifer and Rick managed to pry the table off of the floor. The boards snapped splintered when the table finally came free. Jennifer sighed as though a huge weight had just been lifted, which it had.
Jennifer and Rick turned to table onto its side so that two of the legs were up in the air. "So, what next?" Rick asked his sister-in-law.
Jennifer studied the legs of the table that were in the air. Jennifer grasped the leg closest to her in her hands; she pulled the leg close to her with all her might but it wouldn't budge. Jennifer's knuckles turned white and her muscles strained but pulling the table leg off was not as easy as Jennifer thought it would be.
After over ten minutes of pulling and refusing all help from the O'Connells, the table leg snapped off the table. Jennifer and the table leg went flying backward. Jennifer went crashing to the floor, dazed but aware that she had freed the table leg.
Evelyn helped her sister up, making sure the girl was unhurt. Jennifer looked at the table leg and then to the train window. "So, how hard do you think these windows are?" She asked.
The O'Connells all shrugged, which was all right because Jennifer didn't expect them to know the answer to her question. She walked over to the window and tapped on it, lightly, with the table leg. After studying the window for a few seconds, Jennifer clutched the table leg tightly in her right hand. She brought her right arm back and then thrust the table leg into the window. Surprised at how easy the window broke, Jennifer dropped the table leg onto the sound below the moving train. Jennifer hand went through the hole in the window nearly up to her elbow. Jennifer slowly pulled her hand back and checked it over; a few bleeding scratches but nothing major. The O'Connells ran over to Jennifer; Evelyn once again checked her sister over and finally determined that there was no "life-threatening" problem.
The hole that Jennifer had made in the window was about one-time thicker then the table leg itself. Since the table leg wasn't very thick, the hole wasn't very big but Jennifer had full confidence that her bird could fit through the hole.
The only problem was, the falcon wasn't so sure about that fact himself. Horus looked at the hole and then up at Jennifer; he screeched and ruffled his feathers. "Horus, come on you can fit through that hole." Jennifer said, stroking the bird's ruffled feathers. Jennifer held her bird closer to the hole and nudged him forward with her injured hand. Horus screeched and fit himself through the hole. The split second he was outside Horus spread his wings and rose up on the hot desert air. He flew around the train for a few seconds while Jennifer reminded him of his job: To find Ardeth-Bay. Horus screeched and coasted on thermals, he didn't seem too happy leaving his master.
In the main car of the train, Anubis and Sahure were having another conversation. "The train-tracks run out right up here." Sahure was telling Anubis.
"I know that woman." Anubis growled, he didn't like being told things he already knew.
Sahure said her apologizes quickly. "Should I go get the prisoners ready for the journey." Sahure asked.
Anubis didn't answer. Finally he said, "Yes, but I will come with you."
After shutting off the car, the two left the windowless car and ventured into the second car, where Jennifer had spied. Sahure looked out the window to see none other then the falcon-bird doing spins in the air. Sahure listened carefully and heard the prisoners telling the bird to "find help". Sahure quickly pointed the bird out to Anubis.
The jackal-headed man was beside himself with rage. He stormed off toward the car he had left his prisoners in. Sahure hurried behind him but paused and ran back to the car they had been in previous seconds ago. Sahure entered to car and headed to a cabinet; this was the cabinet where the conductor or whoever would keep the weapons to protect the train from bandits and whatever they could encounter in desert. Sahure opened to cabinet and studied the contents: four pistols, two long-necked guns and one crossbow. Sahure thought quickly and grabbed the crossbow and one of the long-necked guns. She hurriedly ran out of the car and hurried to catch up with Anubis.
Anubis was in the car that Sahure had "locked" the O'Connells in the previous day. The God was dumbfounded to see the prisoners were gone. Sahure entered the room and noticed the absence of prisoners as well. "Here, we should go outside and shoot the bird before it flies away." Sahure said and trust one of the weapons to Anubis. The God took the long-necked gun from his minion and commanded her to unlock the car door.
Horus still refused to fly away from his master like she told him to do. He coasted on the thermals and did air tricks on the wind, like Jennifer had taught him when he was a fledging. "Go Horus!" Jennifer commanded, she was shouting through the hole in the window. Beneath her feet, Jennifer felt the train stop. She looked up at her sister, who looked at her husband. "The train stopped." Evelyn said, no need to state the obvious.
"Go Horus! Hurry!" Jennifer cried and banged as hard as she could on the window, hoping to scare the bird away. The glass cracked under her beating hands, spider-web cracks ran up the glass a ways.
The banging of the window didn't scare Horus; he just screeched and did more "tricks". Out of the corner of her eye, Jennifer saw to figures emerge from the other side of the train. Jennifer turned her attention to the two figures. She gasped when she realized that they were Anubis and Sahure. They had seen Horus -more then likely- and were coming out to "deal" with it; Jennifer could tell because both of them carried weapons.
"Horus!" Jennifer cried and franticly began banging on the glass. She couldn't let them kill Horus; Horus had really been her only friend when she was living in America with her foster parents and had stayed loyal to her from the moment he hatched.
Outside, both Sahure and Anubis readied their weapons to shoot the bird, in case the other missed. Sahure threaded the arrow through the chamber and Anubis cocked the gun with unbelievable expertise. Jennifer saw them point the weapons at her bird, from inside the train. Jennifer decided there was only one thing to do and that was get out of the train and call Horus before they got a chance to fire their weapons. At the time, it seemed like a great idea to Jennifer, backing up and ramming the window with her shoulder. She would only break the glass off and then climb out the window, it would work perfectly. Yeah, right. Jennifer backed up and rammed the glass with her shoulder. Jennifer, however, had forgotten how easy the glass broke when she pounded it. The glass shattered off and Jennifer realized she had nothing to stop herself on. Jennifer went tumbling out the window along with the glass; when she fell forward, her cut was cut upon the glass that still hung on the windowpane. Jennifer lay on the ground, in the sand and shards of glass, a little more then dazed.
"Jennifer!" Evelyn screamed. Alex's breath caught in his throat as he thought about what might have happened to his aunt. Even Rick felt a slight pang of fear for the girl.
At the sound of the breaking glass, Anubis and Sahure were distracting from tracking their target. They lowered their weapons and turned to see what had happened. Jennifer was lying on the ground, where she had fallen when she tumbled out of the window. On her sides, her shirt was ripped slightly and blood trickled from the cuts; Jennifer's arms and legs as well as her face were also cut and bleeding.
Anubis, however, didn't stay impressed by the sight that everyone else couldn't tear their eyes away from. He rose to long-necked gun and tracked the bird again. Horus, however, was no longer doing his air tricks; upon seeing Jennifer tumble out of the train, he began to hover in the air. This made him a prefect target for Anubis. Anubis fired the gun but his sights were off by a few centimeters. The bullet whizzed past Horus's wing; the bird screeched, surprised.
The shot of the gun and the screech of her bird seemed to shock Jennifer out of whatever state she was in. When the gun went off, Jennifer's eyes opened. Her eyes showed that she was slightly disoriented and surprised. She turned her head around to the sky to see her bird fine but screeching his head off. Jennifer staggered to her feet and ran toward Anubis and Sahure. Anubis was cocking his gun again and Sahure was trailing Horus again.
As soon as Jennifer opened her eyes, the O'Connells were busy clearing the chipped glass away from the windowpane. Now that Jennifer was up, the other prisoners jumped out of the train to aid Jennifer in her efforts to save.
As Anubis wrapped a claw around the trigger of the gun, Jennifer tackled the large jackal-man to ground. Mind you, this was no easy task but she and the jackal bother hit the sand. The gun Anubis had went off, missing Horus by and long shot and then fell in the sand. Anubis clawed Jennifer with his claws, trying to free himself. Jennifer managed to keep the God pinned to the ground.
But not for long; Anubis smacked Jennifer across the head with his paw and knocked Jennifer off him. Jennifer landed beside the long-necked gun and blinked. She reached forward and snatched it off the ground; Sahure saw watch she planned to do and pointed to the crossbow at her. Jennifer fumbled with cocking the gun but finally managed to do it.
Evelyn, Rick and Alex joined the fry right as Sahure pulled the shoot on the crossbow. The arrow was aimed to shrike Jennifer above the hand; no need to kill her now, there would be plenty of time for that later. Sahure was a prefect shot with the crossbow; the arrow shot forward and grazed Jennifer's hand. Jennifer yelped, more in surprise than pain, and dropped the gun.
Jennifer turned to Sahure who was loading another arrow into the chamber of the crossbow. Anubis rose to his feet and charged toward Jennifer; better to kill her now then risk her causing problems latter on. Anubis tackled Jennifer to the ground just as she had done to him. Jennifer trashed under the jackal-man's weight but it was no use, she was no match for him.
Sahure aimed the crossbow at Horus, who was still more confused then anything. She fired the gun; the arrow brushed Horus's tail feathers and pulled one out. Horus screeched and took off flying, as though he finally understood that's what he was supposed to do all along. Sahure watched Horus disappear in the distance and cursed the bird under her breath.
Jennifer saw Horus fly away out of the corner of her eye. Jennifer sighed in relief but that relief was short lived; Anubis raised one of his clawed paws to strike Jennifer again. Jennifer reached behind her and grabbed a fistful of sand; she hurled the sand at Anubis's face. The jackal roared in surprise and pain as the sand stung his eyes; the roar was an unearthly sound that Jennifer never cared to hear again. Jennifer backed away from the jackal, pulling herself backward with her elbows.
Evelyn ran over to her sister and helped her up. Evelyn felt the instincts to protect her younger sister, even if her sister didn't need protecting.
Sahure saw that if someone didn't do something quick, she and Anubis were sure to lose the battle and the prisoners would go free. Sahure reloaded the crossbow and pointed the weapon at Jennifer and Evelyn. This time, she aimed to kill one of the sisters.
Rick saw Sahure point the crossbow at his wife and sister-in-law and reacted immediately reacted. Before Sahure had a chance to pull the release on the weapon, Rick used the same tactic Jennifer had used. Since Sahure was close to the adventure, Rick grabbed a fist full of sand and hurled it at Sahure. Sahure cried out in surprise and flung the weapon away; she began rubbing at her eyes with her fists, trying to rub the sand away.
The crossbow made a "thump" as it hit the ground behind Jennifer and her sister. They both turned around to see what had made the sound; Jennifer saw the crossbow and smiled, this was the golden opportunity. They now had a weapon.
Anubis growled as he blinked his eyes, which had finally been removed of sand. He would make her pay! Yes, he would kill her slowly and he would enjoy it. However, now was not the time to kill, not yet. Anubis saw the girl dive for the crossbow and make sure the arrow was fitted securely in the chamber. She swung the crossbow and around and pointed it at him.
Jennifer grabbed the crossbow and made sure the arrow was fitted in the chamber. It was a useless action because Jennifer wouldn't have known what was the "right" way and what was the "wrong" way to put an arrow in the crossbow. She pointed the crossbow at Anubis and wrapped one hand around the trigger, just in case. "Don't move!" She commanded, locking eyes with the God of Death.
Anubis stood, not in fear but in planning. He was planning what to do now; he was not afraid of his prisoner and her useless weapon. He locked eyes with Jennifer and saw that her eyes were full of fire; she was full of courage and determination, Anubis would enjoy getting rid of all of that. Anubis half-smiled at the thought of killing Jennifer but seeing her eyes go weak with fear and pain before he did so.
Sahure saw Jennifer point the crossbow at Anubis through blurry eyes. Damn that man! She would make him pay, for sure but good things came to those who waited. Now was the time to save her master, her God. "Don't move!" Sahure heard Jennifer shout, Jennifer was brave that was for sure. Sahure hated her. All the other prisoners had their attention focused on Jennifer and Anubis, not even aware -it seemed- that Sahure was there. On the ground, nestled in the sand, was the long necked rifle. Sahure carefully picked it up, slowly so that no one would notice her. She gripped the neck of the rifle in her hand, using in like a club. Before anyone knew what happened, Sahure had clubbed Jennifer as hard as she could across the back of the head. Before Jennifer even knew what hit her, she was unconscious.
Jennifer led the O'Connells into the dinning car. When they first entered the car, Rick sighed. "We've already searched in here, there's nothing that can help us." He told his wife's sister, whom he still held a strong dislike in.
Jennifer rolled her eyes and headed to the table that she had tried to lift by herself. "This is what we're going to do," Jennifer began, totally ignoring Rick's comment, "someone help me pry this table off the ground. I tried already but I can't do it by myself." Jennifer said, looking at the O'Connells.
"Then what?" Alex asked. "You're not saying we should throw the table threw the window are you?" Alex asked, his eyes growing wide. Jennifer shook her head, surprised. "'Cause that would be cool." Alex muttered.
"We can break one of the table legs off and make a hole in the window. Horus can squeeze through that." Jennifer said and petted her falcon's tail feathers.
Evelyn had warmed up to the idea. "I don't why we didn't think of that before." She muttered.
Together, Jennifer and Rick managed to pry the table off of the floor. The boards snapped splintered when the table finally came free. Jennifer sighed as though a huge weight had just been lifted, which it had.
Jennifer and Rick turned to table onto its side so that two of the legs were up in the air. "So, what next?" Rick asked his sister-in-law.
Jennifer studied the legs of the table that were in the air. Jennifer grasped the leg closest to her in her hands; she pulled the leg close to her with all her might but it wouldn't budge. Jennifer's knuckles turned white and her muscles strained but pulling the table leg off was not as easy as Jennifer thought it would be.
After over ten minutes of pulling and refusing all help from the O'Connells, the table leg snapped off the table. Jennifer and the table leg went flying backward. Jennifer went crashing to the floor, dazed but aware that she had freed the table leg.
Evelyn helped her sister up, making sure the girl was unhurt. Jennifer looked at the table leg and then to the train window. "So, how hard do you think these windows are?" She asked.
The O'Connells all shrugged, which was all right because Jennifer didn't expect them to know the answer to her question. She walked over to the window and tapped on it, lightly, with the table leg. After studying the window for a few seconds, Jennifer clutched the table leg tightly in her right hand. She brought her right arm back and then thrust the table leg into the window. Surprised at how easy the window broke, Jennifer dropped the table leg onto the sound below the moving train. Jennifer hand went through the hole in the window nearly up to her elbow. Jennifer slowly pulled her hand back and checked it over; a few bleeding scratches but nothing major. The O'Connells ran over to Jennifer; Evelyn once again checked her sister over and finally determined that there was no "life-threatening" problem.
The hole that Jennifer had made in the window was about one-time thicker then the table leg itself. Since the table leg wasn't very thick, the hole wasn't very big but Jennifer had full confidence that her bird could fit through the hole.
The only problem was, the falcon wasn't so sure about that fact himself. Horus looked at the hole and then up at Jennifer; he screeched and ruffled his feathers. "Horus, come on you can fit through that hole." Jennifer said, stroking the bird's ruffled feathers. Jennifer held her bird closer to the hole and nudged him forward with her injured hand. Horus screeched and fit himself through the hole. The split second he was outside Horus spread his wings and rose up on the hot desert air. He flew around the train for a few seconds while Jennifer reminded him of his job: To find Ardeth-Bay. Horus screeched and coasted on thermals, he didn't seem too happy leaving his master.
In the main car of the train, Anubis and Sahure were having another conversation. "The train-tracks run out right up here." Sahure was telling Anubis.
"I know that woman." Anubis growled, he didn't like being told things he already knew.
Sahure said her apologizes quickly. "Should I go get the prisoners ready for the journey." Sahure asked.
Anubis didn't answer. Finally he said, "Yes, but I will come with you."
After shutting off the car, the two left the windowless car and ventured into the second car, where Jennifer had spied. Sahure looked out the window to see none other then the falcon-bird doing spins in the air. Sahure listened carefully and heard the prisoners telling the bird to "find help". Sahure quickly pointed the bird out to Anubis.
The jackal-headed man was beside himself with rage. He stormed off toward the car he had left his prisoners in. Sahure hurried behind him but paused and ran back to the car they had been in previous seconds ago. Sahure entered to car and headed to a cabinet; this was the cabinet where the conductor or whoever would keep the weapons to protect the train from bandits and whatever they could encounter in desert. Sahure opened to cabinet and studied the contents: four pistols, two long-necked guns and one crossbow. Sahure thought quickly and grabbed the crossbow and one of the long-necked guns. She hurriedly ran out of the car and hurried to catch up with Anubis.
Anubis was in the car that Sahure had "locked" the O'Connells in the previous day. The God was dumbfounded to see the prisoners were gone. Sahure entered the room and noticed the absence of prisoners as well. "Here, we should go outside and shoot the bird before it flies away." Sahure said and trust one of the weapons to Anubis. The God took the long-necked gun from his minion and commanded her to unlock the car door.
Horus still refused to fly away from his master like she told him to do. He coasted on the thermals and did air tricks on the wind, like Jennifer had taught him when he was a fledging. "Go Horus!" Jennifer commanded, she was shouting through the hole in the window. Beneath her feet, Jennifer felt the train stop. She looked up at her sister, who looked at her husband. "The train stopped." Evelyn said, no need to state the obvious.
"Go Horus! Hurry!" Jennifer cried and banged as hard as she could on the window, hoping to scare the bird away. The glass cracked under her beating hands, spider-web cracks ran up the glass a ways.
The banging of the window didn't scare Horus; he just screeched and did more "tricks". Out of the corner of her eye, Jennifer saw to figures emerge from the other side of the train. Jennifer turned her attention to the two figures. She gasped when she realized that they were Anubis and Sahure. They had seen Horus -more then likely- and were coming out to "deal" with it; Jennifer could tell because both of them carried weapons.
"Horus!" Jennifer cried and franticly began banging on the glass. She couldn't let them kill Horus; Horus had really been her only friend when she was living in America with her foster parents and had stayed loyal to her from the moment he hatched.
Outside, both Sahure and Anubis readied their weapons to shoot the bird, in case the other missed. Sahure threaded the arrow through the chamber and Anubis cocked the gun with unbelievable expertise. Jennifer saw them point the weapons at her bird, from inside the train. Jennifer decided there was only one thing to do and that was get out of the train and call Horus before they got a chance to fire their weapons. At the time, it seemed like a great idea to Jennifer, backing up and ramming the window with her shoulder. She would only break the glass off and then climb out the window, it would work perfectly. Yeah, right. Jennifer backed up and rammed the glass with her shoulder. Jennifer, however, had forgotten how easy the glass broke when she pounded it. The glass shattered off and Jennifer realized she had nothing to stop herself on. Jennifer went tumbling out the window along with the glass; when she fell forward, her cut was cut upon the glass that still hung on the windowpane. Jennifer lay on the ground, in the sand and shards of glass, a little more then dazed.
"Jennifer!" Evelyn screamed. Alex's breath caught in his throat as he thought about what might have happened to his aunt. Even Rick felt a slight pang of fear for the girl.
At the sound of the breaking glass, Anubis and Sahure were distracting from tracking their target. They lowered their weapons and turned to see what had happened. Jennifer was lying on the ground, where she had fallen when she tumbled out of the window. On her sides, her shirt was ripped slightly and blood trickled from the cuts; Jennifer's arms and legs as well as her face were also cut and bleeding.
Anubis, however, didn't stay impressed by the sight that everyone else couldn't tear their eyes away from. He rose to long-necked gun and tracked the bird again. Horus, however, was no longer doing his air tricks; upon seeing Jennifer tumble out of the train, he began to hover in the air. This made him a prefect target for Anubis. Anubis fired the gun but his sights were off by a few centimeters. The bullet whizzed past Horus's wing; the bird screeched, surprised.
The shot of the gun and the screech of her bird seemed to shock Jennifer out of whatever state she was in. When the gun went off, Jennifer's eyes opened. Her eyes showed that she was slightly disoriented and surprised. She turned her head around to the sky to see her bird fine but screeching his head off. Jennifer staggered to her feet and ran toward Anubis and Sahure. Anubis was cocking his gun again and Sahure was trailing Horus again.
As soon as Jennifer opened her eyes, the O'Connells were busy clearing the chipped glass away from the windowpane. Now that Jennifer was up, the other prisoners jumped out of the train to aid Jennifer in her efforts to save.
As Anubis wrapped a claw around the trigger of the gun, Jennifer tackled the large jackal-man to ground. Mind you, this was no easy task but she and the jackal bother hit the sand. The gun Anubis had went off, missing Horus by and long shot and then fell in the sand. Anubis clawed Jennifer with his claws, trying to free himself. Jennifer managed to keep the God pinned to the ground.
But not for long; Anubis smacked Jennifer across the head with his paw and knocked Jennifer off him. Jennifer landed beside the long-necked gun and blinked. She reached forward and snatched it off the ground; Sahure saw watch she planned to do and pointed to the crossbow at her. Jennifer fumbled with cocking the gun but finally managed to do it.
Evelyn, Rick and Alex joined the fry right as Sahure pulled the shoot on the crossbow. The arrow was aimed to shrike Jennifer above the hand; no need to kill her now, there would be plenty of time for that later. Sahure was a prefect shot with the crossbow; the arrow shot forward and grazed Jennifer's hand. Jennifer yelped, more in surprise than pain, and dropped the gun.
Jennifer turned to Sahure who was loading another arrow into the chamber of the crossbow. Anubis rose to his feet and charged toward Jennifer; better to kill her now then risk her causing problems latter on. Anubis tackled Jennifer to the ground just as she had done to him. Jennifer trashed under the jackal-man's weight but it was no use, she was no match for him.
Sahure aimed the crossbow at Horus, who was still more confused then anything. She fired the gun; the arrow brushed Horus's tail feathers and pulled one out. Horus screeched and took off flying, as though he finally understood that's what he was supposed to do all along. Sahure watched Horus disappear in the distance and cursed the bird under her breath.
Jennifer saw Horus fly away out of the corner of her eye. Jennifer sighed in relief but that relief was short lived; Anubis raised one of his clawed paws to strike Jennifer again. Jennifer reached behind her and grabbed a fistful of sand; she hurled the sand at Anubis's face. The jackal roared in surprise and pain as the sand stung his eyes; the roar was an unearthly sound that Jennifer never cared to hear again. Jennifer backed away from the jackal, pulling herself backward with her elbows.
Evelyn ran over to her sister and helped her up. Evelyn felt the instincts to protect her younger sister, even if her sister didn't need protecting.
Sahure saw that if someone didn't do something quick, she and Anubis were sure to lose the battle and the prisoners would go free. Sahure reloaded the crossbow and pointed the weapon at Jennifer and Evelyn. This time, she aimed to kill one of the sisters.
Rick saw Sahure point the crossbow at his wife and sister-in-law and reacted immediately reacted. Before Sahure had a chance to pull the release on the weapon, Rick used the same tactic Jennifer had used. Since Sahure was close to the adventure, Rick grabbed a fist full of sand and hurled it at Sahure. Sahure cried out in surprise and flung the weapon away; she began rubbing at her eyes with her fists, trying to rub the sand away.
The crossbow made a "thump" as it hit the ground behind Jennifer and her sister. They both turned around to see what had made the sound; Jennifer saw the crossbow and smiled, this was the golden opportunity. They now had a weapon.
Anubis growled as he blinked his eyes, which had finally been removed of sand. He would make her pay! Yes, he would kill her slowly and he would enjoy it. However, now was not the time to kill, not yet. Anubis saw the girl dive for the crossbow and make sure the arrow was fitted securely in the chamber. She swung the crossbow and around and pointed it at him.
Jennifer grabbed the crossbow and made sure the arrow was fitted in the chamber. It was a useless action because Jennifer wouldn't have known what was the "right" way and what was the "wrong" way to put an arrow in the crossbow. She pointed the crossbow at Anubis and wrapped one hand around the trigger, just in case. "Don't move!" She commanded, locking eyes with the God of Death.
Anubis stood, not in fear but in planning. He was planning what to do now; he was not afraid of his prisoner and her useless weapon. He locked eyes with Jennifer and saw that her eyes were full of fire; she was full of courage and determination, Anubis would enjoy getting rid of all of that. Anubis half-smiled at the thought of killing Jennifer but seeing her eyes go weak with fear and pain before he did so.
Sahure saw Jennifer point the crossbow at Anubis through blurry eyes. Damn that man! She would make him pay, for sure but good things came to those who waited. Now was the time to save her master, her God. "Don't move!" Sahure heard Jennifer shout, Jennifer was brave that was for sure. Sahure hated her. All the other prisoners had their attention focused on Jennifer and Anubis, not even aware -it seemed- that Sahure was there. On the ground, nestled in the sand, was the long necked rifle. Sahure carefully picked it up, slowly so that no one would notice her. She gripped the neck of the rifle in her hand, using in like a club. Before anyone knew what happened, Sahure had clubbed Jennifer as hard as she could across the back of the head. Before Jennifer even knew what hit her, she was unconscious.