After all that, night time came. Evie and I decided to look in the sarcophagus, well she did the looking I was the look out. I still felt a bit off with this place. On our way back, we saw that Dr. Chamberlain, the gentleman with the fez. He had a black book, which he was struggling with.
Evie saw what I was looking at, looking up from her scarabs; she picked from the sarcophagus. "I believe you need a key to open that book." I looked at her confused, "what was that about Evie?" "Tell you later." I shrugged.
We saw the other Americans along with Rick and Jonathan. With jars. "Look what I found." Beni that was sitting in mine and Evie's seat Rick looked at him "You're in their seat." Beni thought he was joking, I got quite annoyed "Now, Beni!" He moved quiet quickly with a little 'yup'.
We sat down by Rick, well I put Evie by Rick. "Scarab skeletons, flesh eaters. I found them inside our friend's coffin." I muttered under my voice "your friend, not mine." "They can stay alive for years feasting on the flesh of a corpse. Unfortunately for our friend, he was still alive when they started eating him."
"So somebody threw these in with our guy, and then they slowly ate him alive?" Rick asking Evie. Evie nods "very slowly." I shivered "I can't believe you are just holding them like it's a small kitten or something. You do realise they came to life earlier?" Rick looked at me, "calm down Alice, they aren't going to get you." I glared at his little cocky smirk.
Jonathan changed the subject quickly, he's lucky I didn't shoot him. "He certainly wasn't a popular fellow when they planted him." "Well, he probably got a little too frisky with the pharaoh's daughter." We had to grin at that, "Knowing you, it probably was you in the past life." Me and the rest of them laughed, Rick just grinned.
"Well, according to my readings… our friend suffered the Hom-Dai, the worst of all ancient Egyptian curses… one reserved only for the most evil of blasphemers. But all in my research, I've never heard of this curse having actually been performed." Evie informed us. Rick with his witty remark, "That bad, huh?" "Yes, well, they – they never used it because they feared it so. It's written that if a victim of the Hom-Dai should ever arise… he would bring with him the ten plagues of Egypt."
After that disturbing talk about the Hom-Dai and the curses, we all went to sleep. Except me and Rick, we don't sleep much. Always alert. I heard someone getting up, soft feet, Evie. 'What is she doing?'
I heard Rick speak out, "That's called stealing, you know." "According to you, Alice and my brother… it's called borrowing." I sat up grinning, "I taught you well, Evie." They saw the book she was carrying. "I thought the Book of Amun-Ra was made out of gold." Rick asked, "It is made out of gold. This isn't the Book of Amun-Ra. This is something else. I think this may be the Book of the Dead."
"The Book of the Dead? Are you sure you want to be playing around with this thing?" Rick asked. "I wouldn't want to be reading it or even touching it," I said little bit creeped out with that Book. "It's just a book. No harm ever came from… reading a book." Evie said while opening the book. "Yeah, books never harm you… except papercuts, books dropping on your foot. Shall I go on?" I said sarcastically. They didn't even listen. Suddenly the wind came out of nowhere. "That happens a lot around here." Rick trying to assure us. "So, what's it say?" Rick asked. " 'Amun Ra. Amun Dei.' Speaks of the night and of the day." As she continues what she's saying, I feel like something's wrong.
I heard the guy with the fez shout out, "NOO! YOU MUST NOT READ FROM THE BOOK!" I saw something coming towards us, fast. Jonathan woke up, quickly. "Guys, RUN!" Everyone was screaming 'run' 'go'. We all run back inside the building. Don't know where the others have gone but right now I couldn't care less. We were slowly walking checking if anything was coming near us. All of a sudden there was a vibration, "Ah, Jon!" Evie grabbed on to Jonathan. All of a sudden the sand started to rise up, "We better go the other way." I suggested.
"Scarabs!" Evie screamed. "Go, go, go! Run!" Rick shouting at us. Rick threw the torch towards them, 'like it can do anything' Me and Rick had the same idea as each other. We got out our pistols and started shooting but moving backwards; we came on a bridge, saw no way out of there so me, Rick and Jonathan decided to jump onto the rock that you have jump towards. We were watching them go pass. Neither of us were thinking about where Evie was.
Soon as they went. We realised that Evie wasn't with us. "Evelyn?" Rick called out. "Evie?" Jonathan called out too. "Evie?" I also called out. "Evelyn!" "Evie!" We kept on calling. "Guys, we better go and find her. I don't think those bugs are coming back anytime soon." They nodded and we went to find her. 'I hope she is okay.'