Author's note: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or any of its characters, though I do own all OCs.
Chapter 11- Speaking
Time/ 7:03 am EST
Location/ The dining room of the previously mentioned house
The next morning Ryou had woken, changed into normal cloths, and gone out into the dining room only to find Nicole sitting with a silver-haired man dressed in arab-esque cloths. Tied to his waist was a painted staff decorated to look like a cobra and around his neck was a string with 10 ivory disks, each carved with a different symbol. The man appeared to be having an avid conversation in a strange, guttural language with Nicole and the Nessert-doll that stood before him on the table. Apparently the plushy was annoyed at the man, because it kept making odd faces and pointing at the man accusingly.
"Er, good mourning?"
The trio turned and Nicole smiled softly.
"G'mourning! This is Tait, my teacher. Tait this is-"
"I know who they are." The man smiled warmly. "Good greet, Ryou and Ba-Khu-Ra."
Ryou blinked, before noticing that the man kept looking over his shoulder. Ryou turned, only to see Bakura, looking bewildered. But the man shouldn't be able to see him, he was only a spirit, a projection that only Ryou had been able to see, when not in the Shadow Realm anyway…
"How can you see me?"
The man tilted his head to the side, looking amused.
"When you get as old as I you tend to develop some interesting abilities. By the way, Nicole can see you also, but her method is a little less developed…"
Nicole blushed and Tait laughed. Ryou just stood confused.
"How did you know who we were?"
The man pointed at the disks.
"The Mazes of Re tell me all sorts of things, of the past and future and everything in between. They tell me that you were a terrible thief in life, though misdriven. If you'd have understood you may have become a great ally to the Pharaoh."
Bakura shrugged. Screw the past, what's done was done, but Ryou was skeptic.
"Who…what are you?"
Tait laughed again, a real, good natured laugh.
"I am Tait, advisor to Pharaoh Tamose, guardian of prince Nefer Memnon. I have aided lord Apepi, king of the Hyksos, and a hundred other kings through out my life." He smiled. "I am an Immortal." He shifted his gaze from Ryou to Bakura, back and forth. "From what my student has said of you, and what the Mazes have told me, I believe you would make good apprentices."