"Well, then who are the parents of Marcus and Mirella?" Rick asked,
closing the door.
"They are my brother Onrel's. He, being the younger of us, decided that there was no use in staying the Med-Jai, and left to become a business man in Europe. He is out on a trip with his wife, and I was asked to take care of them." Said Aredeth.
"Oh, alright. Well, please, come in and sit down." Evie said, motioning toward the sofa. He sat and sighed.
"Who is the girl with the glasses and blond hair?"
"Turns out she is the legal adopted daughter of us. You remember Winston?" said Rick
"Yes, and the plane ride."
"Well, that girl, Catherine, is his grand-daughter. So far of what we know, all of her family had died. She seems to be getting along well with Mirella."
Aredeth smiled.
"That's good. There dosen't seem to be many girls her age on their street. She could use a friend out of school."
*****
Catherine set the bag down on a bed.
"Is that man at the door your uncle?"
Mirella nodded.
"Uncle Aredeth. He comes from Egypt."
"Why does he have those markings on his face?"
She shrugged.
"I don't know. I've never asked."
*****
"Catherine, your daughter, there seems to be something unusual about her."
Rick laughed.
"Aside from being blond, having glasses, and fainting on our doorstep the night we were going to leave on a dig, you find something weird about her?"
Evie glared at Rick, and promptly gave him a whack up the side of his head.
Rick flinched and held his head.
"Anyway, go on." Evie said, picking up her cup of tea (they are in England. What do you expect?)
"Well, she just seems to have this look in her eyes that doesn't look…her. It's like she's herself, but someone else is living inside her head, and seeing what else is going on."
Rick was so confused, he though he might be sick. "I don't get it, but I'll try…"
*****
All of the kids were in the kitchen, trying to sneak something to eat while Aredeth, Evie and Rick were talking in the living room.
Alex grabbed a bag of cookies, and sneaked back up the stairs, the rest following him. They all sat down on the bed, and ate, and talked, and finally fell asleep. Little did they know what was about to happen the next morning.
*****
Catherine stretched, and pushed the blanket off her. The sun was pouring through the window, and it felt like morning.
"La la la.." she sang, walking over the three other unconscious people laying around her, and picked up a housecoat. She wrapped it around her and walked into the kitchen.
"Good morning!" she said to Rick and Evie, walking over to the counter to pick up an apple. "Have you figured out what that scroll meant?"
Rick looked up from the paper.
"Nope. We both checked it over as much as we could, but I don't think we've looked at it this morning (yes, Rick has learned Egyptian!)"
"Oh, ok. I thought I heard you in the kitchen earlier this morning."
"No. wait, we were up. Honey, why weren't we checking on the scroll? I meant, after-"
Evie shot him a 'don't-you-dare-say-anything-or-you'll-be-sleeping-on-the- couch' look and he shut up.
Catherine gasped, and laughed as she buried her head in her arms.
Rick stood up, and folded the newspaper.
"I think I'll check on that scroll right now and not say anything."
And he took off.
Catherine sat in silence chewing her apple and looking at all the artifacts that were, well, everywhere. Marcus then walked down, with Alex and Mirella following him.
"Hello everyone. Are you up for breakfast?" Evie asked, taking out a frying pan.
Alex grimaced and had the others follow along.
"Um…maybe not today mum, we were kind of snacking last night…"
Evie shrugged and the rest picked up something from the bowl of fruit on the table.
"You don't want to know mum's cooking." Alex whispered as he went by.
All of a sudden, Rick came storming down the stairs, and ran into the kitchen.
"Evie! Evie! Alex! I can read the scroll! Every word of it!"
Evie dropped the frying pan.
"What? Really?"
Rick nodded excitedly and showed it to her. Her face took on a surprised look, and she recited the first sentence from it.
"This is the scroll of the great war between the gods Ma'at and Seth. Oh my God! This has never been found at all! There are only possibly two pages total about this event! Rick, if what I know is correct, something is going to happen and soon!"
No one spoke at the table. Marcus had dropped his apple and Mirella and Catherine were very confused. Alex was standing with his parents looking at the scroll.
"Uh…so…this means the world is gonna end?" asked Rick
Evie stared at him.
"You read the part at the end! Of course the world is going to end!"
Catherine managed to speak, at the looks of everyone else.
"Well, um, maybe you should read the rest of the scroll before we come to any conclusions? Hehe….I guess.."
"Good point." answered Mirella.
*****
Marcus and his sister had left earlier and Alex and Catherine were either reading or looking around in Catherine's case. Rick and Evie were sitting in their bedroom, Evie poring over a textbook.
"I know that it has to be here somewhere, but where…"
Rick leaned over and kissed her.
"You always are looking at textbooks. Why not relax for a bit?"
Rick continued to kiss her neck, and she took off her reading glasses and decided to relax.
"Wait. No." she said, after pulling away long enough to breath, "That scroll needs to be looked at."
Rick sighed and hung his head. This had always happened…
Evie looked over the scroll, and decided to actually read it seriously.
"Ok, it says here, and I quote from the beginning, or where I left off:
"The body of ma'at will be female, and she will look unlike all. Her hair will be like the desert sands, her eyes gray as storm clouds, waiting to flash and thunder. She will be completely backwards in her writing and battle movements, and she will be scarred, to prove she is mortal. One will know only who this one will be by only a look into her eyes.
Thoth will be opposite from Ma'at. His hair will be dark as night and eyes the colour of cedar. He will not be backwards, and will wield a sword as pharaoh. He will be revealed after Ma'at.
Seth will have hair like the sun and eyes like the Nile. He will also wield a sword as pharaoh, and he will be revealed at the time of Ma'at.
Nepthys will be like Thoth, though female. She will not be backward in writing, and will be revealed after Seth.
The companions to the pairs will we called to Egypt, whether living or dead, and will be presented with armour and weapons by their leaders. The armies will also be called to Egypt and will be presented with weapons, if not already owned by the troops.
This will begin the battle of ages. In the end, one will die and one will succeed. The victor will have rule over the world.
So this will begin thirteen days after this scroll has been recited and read."
Rick smacked his forehead.
"Evie, you did it again."
She looked up and looked scared.
"What? I did what?"
"Read over the last line of the scroll again."
Evie did so, and still was confused.
"I don't understa…oh dear, I have done it again! Oh no…"
She broke down and started to cry in her hands. Rick hugged her, and kissed her. "You'll be alright. We just need to find people who fit these descriptions."
Just like my wife to always start the end of the world Rick thought.
*****
"Ok, Catherine, Alex. We've explained this to you, and we need your help. Do any of you know a blond haired boy or girl with gray eyes and does everything backwards and was thought to be weird by someone looking at them?"
Alex and Catherine sat, having trying to compute, not caring.
"Alex! Catherine!" Rick shouted, waking them from the stupor.
"Ok, so you need a blond that does everything backwards and is weird. How about Catherine?"
Catherine smacked Alex up the back of his head.
"Ow! But mum's right. You are blond…sort of…"
She looked over her hair.
"You're right. It's kind of….mutt hair."
Rick sat down.
"Mutt hair?"
"Yeah. It's blond, brown, black, and every once in a while a reddish brown hair ends up on the brush. It kind of looks like all the kings of sand or dirt you could find. In PEI, that's a province in Canada, the dirt's red, and most other places it's brown or black, and I think, though this might be guessing, sand is yellowish or reddish depending on how you look at it."
Rick shrugged and sighed.
"Well, Evie, lets go looking on the street. We need to find blond girls."
*****
"They are my brother Onrel's. He, being the younger of us, decided that there was no use in staying the Med-Jai, and left to become a business man in Europe. He is out on a trip with his wife, and I was asked to take care of them." Said Aredeth.
"Oh, alright. Well, please, come in and sit down." Evie said, motioning toward the sofa. He sat and sighed.
"Who is the girl with the glasses and blond hair?"
"Turns out she is the legal adopted daughter of us. You remember Winston?" said Rick
"Yes, and the plane ride."
"Well, that girl, Catherine, is his grand-daughter. So far of what we know, all of her family had died. She seems to be getting along well with Mirella."
Aredeth smiled.
"That's good. There dosen't seem to be many girls her age on their street. She could use a friend out of school."
*****
Catherine set the bag down on a bed.
"Is that man at the door your uncle?"
Mirella nodded.
"Uncle Aredeth. He comes from Egypt."
"Why does he have those markings on his face?"
She shrugged.
"I don't know. I've never asked."
*****
"Catherine, your daughter, there seems to be something unusual about her."
Rick laughed.
"Aside from being blond, having glasses, and fainting on our doorstep the night we were going to leave on a dig, you find something weird about her?"
Evie glared at Rick, and promptly gave him a whack up the side of his head.
Rick flinched and held his head.
"Anyway, go on." Evie said, picking up her cup of tea (they are in England. What do you expect?)
"Well, she just seems to have this look in her eyes that doesn't look…her. It's like she's herself, but someone else is living inside her head, and seeing what else is going on."
Rick was so confused, he though he might be sick. "I don't get it, but I'll try…"
*****
All of the kids were in the kitchen, trying to sneak something to eat while Aredeth, Evie and Rick were talking in the living room.
Alex grabbed a bag of cookies, and sneaked back up the stairs, the rest following him. They all sat down on the bed, and ate, and talked, and finally fell asleep. Little did they know what was about to happen the next morning.
*****
Catherine stretched, and pushed the blanket off her. The sun was pouring through the window, and it felt like morning.
"La la la.." she sang, walking over the three other unconscious people laying around her, and picked up a housecoat. She wrapped it around her and walked into the kitchen.
"Good morning!" she said to Rick and Evie, walking over to the counter to pick up an apple. "Have you figured out what that scroll meant?"
Rick looked up from the paper.
"Nope. We both checked it over as much as we could, but I don't think we've looked at it this morning (yes, Rick has learned Egyptian!)"
"Oh, ok. I thought I heard you in the kitchen earlier this morning."
"No. wait, we were up. Honey, why weren't we checking on the scroll? I meant, after-"
Evie shot him a 'don't-you-dare-say-anything-or-you'll-be-sleeping-on-the- couch' look and he shut up.
Catherine gasped, and laughed as she buried her head in her arms.
Rick stood up, and folded the newspaper.
"I think I'll check on that scroll right now and not say anything."
And he took off.
Catherine sat in silence chewing her apple and looking at all the artifacts that were, well, everywhere. Marcus then walked down, with Alex and Mirella following him.
"Hello everyone. Are you up for breakfast?" Evie asked, taking out a frying pan.
Alex grimaced and had the others follow along.
"Um…maybe not today mum, we were kind of snacking last night…"
Evie shrugged and the rest picked up something from the bowl of fruit on the table.
"You don't want to know mum's cooking." Alex whispered as he went by.
All of a sudden, Rick came storming down the stairs, and ran into the kitchen.
"Evie! Evie! Alex! I can read the scroll! Every word of it!"
Evie dropped the frying pan.
"What? Really?"
Rick nodded excitedly and showed it to her. Her face took on a surprised look, and she recited the first sentence from it.
"This is the scroll of the great war between the gods Ma'at and Seth. Oh my God! This has never been found at all! There are only possibly two pages total about this event! Rick, if what I know is correct, something is going to happen and soon!"
No one spoke at the table. Marcus had dropped his apple and Mirella and Catherine were very confused. Alex was standing with his parents looking at the scroll.
"Uh…so…this means the world is gonna end?" asked Rick
Evie stared at him.
"You read the part at the end! Of course the world is going to end!"
Catherine managed to speak, at the looks of everyone else.
"Well, um, maybe you should read the rest of the scroll before we come to any conclusions? Hehe….I guess.."
"Good point." answered Mirella.
*****
Marcus and his sister had left earlier and Alex and Catherine were either reading or looking around in Catherine's case. Rick and Evie were sitting in their bedroom, Evie poring over a textbook.
"I know that it has to be here somewhere, but where…"
Rick leaned over and kissed her.
"You always are looking at textbooks. Why not relax for a bit?"
Rick continued to kiss her neck, and she took off her reading glasses and decided to relax.
"Wait. No." she said, after pulling away long enough to breath, "That scroll needs to be looked at."
Rick sighed and hung his head. This had always happened…
Evie looked over the scroll, and decided to actually read it seriously.
"Ok, it says here, and I quote from the beginning, or where I left off:
"The body of ma'at will be female, and she will look unlike all. Her hair will be like the desert sands, her eyes gray as storm clouds, waiting to flash and thunder. She will be completely backwards in her writing and battle movements, and she will be scarred, to prove she is mortal. One will know only who this one will be by only a look into her eyes.
Thoth will be opposite from Ma'at. His hair will be dark as night and eyes the colour of cedar. He will not be backwards, and will wield a sword as pharaoh. He will be revealed after Ma'at.
Seth will have hair like the sun and eyes like the Nile. He will also wield a sword as pharaoh, and he will be revealed at the time of Ma'at.
Nepthys will be like Thoth, though female. She will not be backward in writing, and will be revealed after Seth.
The companions to the pairs will we called to Egypt, whether living or dead, and will be presented with armour and weapons by their leaders. The armies will also be called to Egypt and will be presented with weapons, if not already owned by the troops.
This will begin the battle of ages. In the end, one will die and one will succeed. The victor will have rule over the world.
So this will begin thirteen days after this scroll has been recited and read."
Rick smacked his forehead.
"Evie, you did it again."
She looked up and looked scared.
"What? I did what?"
"Read over the last line of the scroll again."
Evie did so, and still was confused.
"I don't understa…oh dear, I have done it again! Oh no…"
She broke down and started to cry in her hands. Rick hugged her, and kissed her. "You'll be alright. We just need to find people who fit these descriptions."
Just like my wife to always start the end of the world Rick thought.
*****
"Ok, Catherine, Alex. We've explained this to you, and we need your help. Do any of you know a blond haired boy or girl with gray eyes and does everything backwards and was thought to be weird by someone looking at them?"
Alex and Catherine sat, having trying to compute, not caring.
"Alex! Catherine!" Rick shouted, waking them from the stupor.
"Ok, so you need a blond that does everything backwards and is weird. How about Catherine?"
Catherine smacked Alex up the back of his head.
"Ow! But mum's right. You are blond…sort of…"
She looked over her hair.
"You're right. It's kind of….mutt hair."
Rick sat down.
"Mutt hair?"
"Yeah. It's blond, brown, black, and every once in a while a reddish brown hair ends up on the brush. It kind of looks like all the kings of sand or dirt you could find. In PEI, that's a province in Canada, the dirt's red, and most other places it's brown or black, and I think, though this might be guessing, sand is yellowish or reddish depending on how you look at it."
Rick shrugged and sighed.
"Well, Evie, lets go looking on the street. We need to find blond girls."
*****