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Discoveries

It had taken us nearly two hours to clean up the advisor's office, and we were still not done. There were piles upon piles of scrolls, which must have lain hidden from Ptomley's and my eyes. But none a less we found them piled up in a corner behind the back of the desk. Whoa, I bet Anun didn't want these scrolls to be found. The large black shape, in case your wondering that is me, the sphinx, stalked towards the desk, and with it's sharp claws began to pull the stubborn scrolls from out under the desk. Ptomley looked in awe as the number of scrolls doubled, the total becoming to hundred, no magician, who I ever served had no more than at least sixty scrolls. I was starting to think that Anun was not your average sort of advisor when I discovered that the piles of scrolls were all about magic. The Sphinx glanced over at Ptomley, the boy was still staring in awe at the number of scrolls which where behind the desk.

"Ptomley, you go and tell Anun that we have finished." I told him, he looked at me blankly.

"What about the scrolls? Don't we need to put them away too?" Asked the boy. I thought up a reply, but somehow I had to get the scrolls out of here and somewhere were nobody (except me of course) can find them. "I'll take care of them, you just go." The prince glanced at the sphinx suspiciously before walking away.


Bartimeaus's POV

The sphinx sighed before gathering up the scrolls, ow! A paper cut. I thought bitterly to myself, that's just what I needed! The sphinx unfolded it's wings and took off from the floor, being very careful (if I might add) not to drop the scrolls which were being carried in it's paws.

Where's a window when you need it, Anun did not like his light did he? There wasn't a single window in the room, the sphinx circled to find a place to escape before the prince and the advisor came back.

Why isn't there an escape route around here? Doesn't he like fresh air? Hey what's that? It looks like a secret door? Whilst I had been flying a round and around, I had spotted what looked to me like a secret door behind one of the bookcases. The god's only knew how neither of Ptomley or I had been able to miss it. The sphinx descended to the now clean ground; hey you can see the marble floor now! I padded my way over to the wooden door and very careful pushed it open.


Ptomley's POV

When I had left Bartimeaus in the study alone with those scrolls, I couldn't help but feel suspicious at the way he had told me to go get Anun. I couldn't help but feel as though he might try and read the scrolls to learn about Egypt and her weaknesses. But something in the Sphinx's eyes told me that it was urgent, something that he was so surprised to find himself. But why would Anun try to hide very important scrolls about Egypt? It just didn't make sense. Now that I thought about it the more I could understand the reasons why Bartimeaus wanted me to get my father's advisor and most trusted friend, the scrolls were probably black magic.

"Hey, watch were your going!" An annoyed voice snapped me from my thoughts; I looked up to find Anun standing in front of me looking slightly angry at something.

"We have finished tidying up your study." I told him innocently, carefully missing out the fact that we found a hundred scrolls down the back of his desk. He looked at me for a second before motioning me to follow him to his study.

When we arrived back we found the room completely empty, where is Bartimeaus? I thought.

"Well you have seem to have done a good job in tidying it up, but were is your djinni?"

I had to think up an answer very quickly, "he went to get something from my room." I told him. He looked at me briefly before telling me that I could leave, "bye." Then I left the room quickly to look for Bartimeaus.


Bartimeaus's POV

Wow, can you believe it? What I found behind the door was a long tunnel stretching downwards, where I thought was heading under ground, and by following the millions of stairs I was right. I ended up in a large under ground room with lots of Egyptian writing. I then noticed something else, something quite out of the ordinary; it was a very large book on a gold stand. When I walked closer to the book I could feel a very powerful magical presence within it. I stepped back, it was giving me a very big banging headache! Just then I heard footsteps, we, djinni have very good hearing, better than you humans, so I could tell that someone was coming down here. The sphinx quickly looked around to see if there was a way to escape, nothing.

So then I decided to look for a place to hide, behind one of those statues! I quickly dashed towards it, just as the footsteps had become to grow louder and a shadow started to appear on the wall.

Walking down the stairs was Anun, what was he doing down here? I watched as he walked towards the book, he flicked through a couple of pages before stopping, I heard him mutter under his breath, but could not catch what he said. He then turned around and walked back up the stairs. I waited till I could only here his faint footsteps then crept from my hiding place towards the now open book.

I peered at it, it was already giving me a headache but I had to know what was written in it.

"Oh, no!" I whispered.