As soon as the words left his mouth Nefertiri got up and ran out of the room, only to be stopped by her brother catching her arm and holding her still.

"say it isn't so, my dear brother." She pleaded, "tell me to my face that the father of my children is still alive, tell me my friend, who risked his life to help me and my love live is alive as well, tell me this is a nightmare." But all Kushu could do was lower his head in shame knowing he could not truthfully tell his sister the things she prayed to hear.

She grabbed on to her brother and cried her eyes out knowing this was her punishment for her sins. She cried herself to sleep.

Kushu returned his sleeping sister to her room and went to check up on his niece.

As soon as he entered the room he knew she knew for she asked a question he had yet to find the answer to himself.

"and what of my brother?" the second the words left her mouth Kushu turned and ran towards the medjai camp cursing himself for forgetting his nephew.

As he entered the camp a tall man with long black hair stopped him,

"sire, the child of the medjai who was murdered is dead." The medjai told him after Kushu stopped asking questions.

"how did the child die?"

"he was murdered, most likely by the same man who took his fathers life."

"when did this happen?"

"this morning, the child was nowhere to seen, so I came forth to see if he was alright and found his throat cut. Such a young child with such a big future." He lowered his head and Kushu ran back into the palace to tell his sister of the news.

It was near the time for the burial of the five medjai, the pharaoh, and Anck-su-namun, when the body of Anck-su-namun was stolen. The medjai found out and followed Imhotep to the city of the dead. Before he could finish reading from the book of the dead, Imhotep and his men were caught and forced to be mummified alive. One man escaped with his life by telling a secret so dark, so horrible that the one man who now knew was to hold for as long as possible.

Over the last year. Nefertiri was never the same, four weeks after becoming pharaoh, Kushu died of unknown causes. Although Nefertiri believed someone poisoned him, she could not prove it. With her brother's death, Nefertiri now became pharaoh, but was forced by law to marry before the end of her one month rein.

Remembering Ramses the second had been after her hand in marriage she agreed and ruled as his queen, but since Nefertiri would not bare him any children of their own, he was forced to love Myetum as his own.

Myetum was the only family Nefertiri had left and with that engraved into her head she made sure her daughter was to never leave without her knowing or being accompanied by the medjai or herself.

Myetum was now 9 and was, for the first time in her life being separated from her mother. She was leaving Thebes to make peace with a neighboring kingdom and as she left she hugged her child and kissed her leaving her with only this to say, "be careful my child, you are now a marked target. For the one who escaped our secret lies with someone else and we are not safe, be aware of your surroundings and never cry, for I will always be with you."

The carriage left and Myetum and Nefertiri took once last glance at each other, never knowing that this would be the last time they saw the other alive.

well there's chapter 6 so let me know what you think, thanks