Goddess: Here we are again! Good/Bad news first?
Cally: Good.
Goddess: Went to the dentist today to get the teeth checked out. They hurt so bad last night I didn't get much sleep.
Cally: Bad
Goddess: He didn't fix anything, and instead gave me an antibiotic for an abscessing tooth.
Dushu and Ari: Ohhhh... ugly.
Goddess: So that really wasn't funny you two.
Dushu: It's not our fault. We all share the same brain.
Disclaimer: We're all trained psychopaths... we just write, you just read, then review (or you will be stalked until you do muahaha) but we don't earn money, we don't own it, and really.. who would want to.. that's waaaaay too much sand for our liking.
Ardeth Bay
I was alone in my home when I heard the cry go up from the Medjai charged with this watch. Someone had been found out in the desert. I stood, as a leading warrior, and one much more versed with the people outside the Medjai tribes, I would be the one to speak with this person, see why he had been in the desert. The commander of the watch rode up on his horse, bearing a bundle that was rather tiny. I was puzzled for a moment, wondering if it had been a child lost in the desert.
"What has the watch found Abdullah?" I asked.
"A woman." he replied shortly
I stood next to him, holding the reigns of his horse, patting its soft nose. The horse calmed, nickering in my ear. Something had clearly startled the animal, and I was unsure if that meant it had sensed a scorpion. I patted his neck and looked at Abdullah. He appeared to be checking the woman for signs of life, but he was frowning.
"Is she dead?" I asked.
"No, this is better discussed in private Ardeth." He replied.
He handed the woman to me. I was surprised at how little she weighed. He had wrapped her in a desert shift all Medjai carried with them in case they found a stranded person out in the scorching desert. Many were tourists that had little to no knowledge of just how deadly the desert could be in what little protection they wore.
The shift moved from her face as I made sure I could hold her weight steadily. Her face surprised me, she appeared in all respects, to be a woman of the Medjai heritage, or possibly a direct line from the Egyptian people of the higher class. But that was not all I saw in her face. She moaned, her eyes beginning to open.
"Where did you find her?" I asked.
"She was out in the desert, by the sunken city." Abdullah replied.
He led the way to my tent, so that we could discuss the woman's appearance, and where she had been found. This was not something we would speak of in front of the other tribe's people.
"She was at Humenaptra? This doesn't make any sense, the city is beneath the sands now, and much to far away for her to be there alone." I said.
"She is no doubt a treasure seeker like the rest. Her party has probably deserted her, after doing that to her." Abdullah said.
"I do not think so. Go fetch the healing woman. We will have our answers one way or another." I said.
I finished unwrapping the woman from the shift. She appeared so fragile, but there was an air of strength and power about her that I could mistake for naught else. She was dark skinned, slender, with kohl lining her eyes so as to reflect the sun. I picked her hand up in both my own to see if she still lived. I was surprised once more to see the same markings on her arms and hands as were on her face. She stirred once more and opened her eyes.
"I know your face." She whispered, a sadness in her voice I could not understand.
"And you seem all too familiar to me. Why do you bear these markings? The markings of a Medjai?" I asked her, watching her dark eyes focus on me.
Who is this new character? What does Ardeth mean by the markings of a Medjai? (I'm sure you all know that one) And why would she be found near the city of Humnaptra?
As I said before, don't count all the chickens yet. I'm guaranteeing within the next one or two chapters, I'll have thrown you all for a loop considering this new character.
Now, if you don't mind, we have to remove sand from our shorts.