Liza had never been so confused. One minute, she was in her hiding spot, (hoping her father didn't very well kill her mother) and the next she was standing in Ancient Egypt with a really cute guy in front of her. Boy, this day was just getting better and better! The guy in front of her smiled and extended his hand.
"I'm sure you have many questions, Liza," he said, hand still extended "but for now, ask you to trust me. You are safe here."
Liza, though very tempted, didn't take his hand. "Might I ask where I am and who you are?" she said.
"Of course. You are in my privet court yard in my palace, in Luxor. And am Yami, the pharaoh here. At least in this section in time."
" Pharaoh! But……but home, there were some guys who found a tomb of a pharaoh Yami. How on earth can you be standing in front of me, when people back home are looking at your bones?" Liza asked.
"As I said, you have many questions. Answers will come in time. For now, please, just trust me when I say that you are safe here and you will be taken care of. I will return you home when it's safe."
Liza, still cautious but more trusting, took his hand. His figures closed around hers and he gently pulled her towards him. " So, I'm not safe in my cave? Why?"
" Your father, I believe he is anyway, has found out where you disappear to every time he comes home in a bad mood. And he's madder then ever."
"How do you know this!" Liza said, stopping dead in her tracks. She could bring her self to jerk her hand away, but she had to fight down a really big urge to do just that.
Yami, to, stopped and looked into her eyes. "I watch you every time you walk into that cave, Liza. I saw you when you didn't get out of the house in time, and had a nasty black eye. I saw you that same time, go immediately to that hand print on the back wall, the one that you knew would give you comfort, and collapsed in front of it. You were crying. You said something like 'He is so evil. Are all men like that my friend, my phantom friend?'. It hurt me to see you like that."
"You were my phantom friend? The one who always listened offered comfort when I needed it and hope when I had none?"
"That is true. And now, I am helping you once more. Please come." Yami answered, turning to lead them down the path again.
"But what's going to happen? Will my mother be ok?" Liza asked following. Her hand was still in his after all, so she had to follow him. And something in his voice told her not to argue.
"We will watch from a safe spot in my palace. Yes your mother is fine. Your father will be at the cave any second, and I have to get us as far away from the portal as possible, so he can't get through."
With out a word (and giving him her complete trust) Liza followed the young pharaoh silently into his palace. She didn't now what was going to happen, but something told her that what ever did happen, Yami would be there, helping her, always.