Sign: Sorry for delay. Couldn't be helped. Here's the next chappy! (Disclaimer: see other chapters)
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Anyway, back the stranger who was not a guard. He took a hint and didn't say anything about my Mother.
"Well, if I need a name so badly in your eyes," he said, "I'll just steal part of yours. I'll be Akal. You'll be Yami from now on."
I really had no other choice then to call him Akal from that point. It was still _my_ name, but he insisted I was Yami now. I decided to let it slide.
"What are you doing in the palace if you don't work here, Akal," I asked.
"I don't think I'm going to tell you. Besides, my friend Bekareh would never let me hear the end of it if he knew I was consorting with someone like you," he said.
"Fine, I don't care," I said, "I'll just have you executed for trespassing. I only need to send a real guard after you and they'll finish you right off."
Akal frowned. I didn't care. I was still angry about the candle thing, and he was right there to be vented on.
"Little Pharaoh, more of a bastard then your big daddy is, aren't you?" he said.
I'd been called worse. So had Father.
"Well, midget Pharaoh," he said sarcastically, "Since I'm not going to be around here much longer, you might as well know. I suppose you might even have some sympathy. I'm here for what's mine."
"And? What in the Nile could be yours that's around here?" I asked.
I was genuinely curious, actually. My 'sixth sense', as Seth said it was called, was screaming that this person in front of me had some powers of his own.
"It's inside your family vaults, along with several other pieces that don't belong to me," he said. "I don't care about the rest, but I'm taking what's mine. It's only almost dawn now - and so, Midget Pharaoh Yami, I won't be seeing you."
Akal left then. I spotted some blindingly bright golden hair trailing from under his guard's helmet as he walked away.
I never saw him after that. But there was a large commotion by the treasure vaults later that morning. Someone found the dead body of some guard by it. There was only one wound on him, some knife had stabbed him right through the heart.
And his whole body was withered and crumbling into dust already…the thing gave me a very disturbing feeling, and Seth was a bit skittish for a while afterwards too…
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Anyway, back the stranger who was not a guard. He took a hint and didn't say anything about my Mother.
"Well, if I need a name so badly in your eyes," he said, "I'll just steal part of yours. I'll be Akal. You'll be Yami from now on."
I really had no other choice then to call him Akal from that point. It was still _my_ name, but he insisted I was Yami now. I decided to let it slide.
"What are you doing in the palace if you don't work here, Akal," I asked.
"I don't think I'm going to tell you. Besides, my friend Bekareh would never let me hear the end of it if he knew I was consorting with someone like you," he said.
"Fine, I don't care," I said, "I'll just have you executed for trespassing. I only need to send a real guard after you and they'll finish you right off."
Akal frowned. I didn't care. I was still angry about the candle thing, and he was right there to be vented on.
"Little Pharaoh, more of a bastard then your big daddy is, aren't you?" he said.
I'd been called worse. So had Father.
"Well, midget Pharaoh," he said sarcastically, "Since I'm not going to be around here much longer, you might as well know. I suppose you might even have some sympathy. I'm here for what's mine."
"And? What in the Nile could be yours that's around here?" I asked.
I was genuinely curious, actually. My 'sixth sense', as Seth said it was called, was screaming that this person in front of me had some powers of his own.
"It's inside your family vaults, along with several other pieces that don't belong to me," he said. "I don't care about the rest, but I'm taking what's mine. It's only almost dawn now - and so, Midget Pharaoh Yami, I won't be seeing you."
Akal left then. I spotted some blindingly bright golden hair trailing from under his guard's helmet as he walked away.
I never saw him after that. But there was a large commotion by the treasure vaults later that morning. Someone found the dead body of some guard by it. There was only one wound on him, some knife had stabbed him right through the heart.
And his whole body was withered and crumbling into dust already…the thing gave me a very disturbing feeling, and Seth was a bit skittish for a while afterwards too…
