Please skip to ch4 which is actually chapter 3 version 2.0. ffn's new deleting warnings scare me and since I don't want to lose reviews I am putting a quick place holder up.
I'm going to take a moment and thank the people who reviewed this time ^_^
Alchemine , Hatshepsut (great name!!!), and Jelsemium (who I must thank again for the use of the Bookwyrm).
Jeselmium: yeah I liked that line too. It's very Djetre. He's something of a cross between Hiss in Disney's animated Robin Hood, Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series and Dumbledore. An interesting combination huh?
Hatshepsut: (again I love the name!) I'm so glad you liked this fic ^_^ reviews leave me floaty and fuzzy feeling all day. I'm glad you liked my other story as well. That one is a real beast and if I can get enough time to sit down, it's really going to pick up!
Alchemine: thank you for your review! Bill stories are rare, yeah. I found this gem http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=60047 by Jedi Boadicea a little bit after I began writing Clockwork so I've been careful not to let it sound too much like this. So far, so good! I also glad you could follow the detail! I've been told I have added too much. It's hard NOT to write a ton of detail when you can see everything crystal clear in your minds eye, but you run the risk of bogging down your readers. A great dead of the research had to be done recently since I haven't studied ancient Egypt since I had the passion (and time!) of an elementary school kid!
http://touregypt.net/ - this is the site was using as my primary source of info. Plus my past knowledge of the various gods/goddesses and some additional sites which listed names and had maps helped. Then I also got a bargain book at B&N about life in ancient Egypt (it's a Time Life book. some of the facts I think are kind of inaccurate but it has gorgeous maps!)
the best part was when I decided where to send him and who would play a major role and then I chose a dynasty…and everything worked. Locations, major events, gods, monsters, wizard etc. it was cool. ^_^ If you couldn't tell, I am really proud of this fic (since I think it's pretty original and I have done a lot of research on a subject I LOVE. I used a beta for ch 3 for the FA version and she wanted to know why it was Fanfic! I had huge warm fuzzies after that one)
I was the weird little kid who not only knew about Zeus, Hercules, Poseidon and all them, but I knew all the roman names as well and then if I wasn't weird enough I knew all about the Egyptian gods and could recite the mummification process my heart. I did a report and creeped some other kids out. It was good. The sphinx is probably the closest I've come to a self insertion char. ^_^ so I guess I am not doing too badly. That's the only reason she'd show up in the MS radar.
Thanks to a good online friend of mine who is just as twisted as I am, if not more, I have a direction and a menacing villain type person now! Yay!
The inclusion of this villainous material is the reason for reposting chapter 3.
On to chapter 3, version 2.0!
