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CHAPTER EIGHT

"Anta the time is coming….you must remember….remember your past who you really are…time is no longer on your side… daughter of Sekhmet you must remember!"

I jerked awake abruptly as a feeling of terror evaded my being at the face that had come into my mind's eye after that name had been spoken.

"What's wrong love?" Ardeth asked his voice heavy with sleep and tinged with concern as I had been waking up from nightmares for the past two years.

"Nothing, I'm okay." I whispered back kissing his cheek, after searching my eyes which caused me to smile he laid back down opening his arms to me. I snuggled down into his chest and listened to his heartbeat, at one time it would have lulled me to sleep but for the past four months almost nothing could make me sleep again once I had woken from the strange dreams and sometimes nightmares that had begun to visit me regularly the past two years.

When the sun finally started to rise I slipped out of our bed and after washing my face I changed into a pair of black pants and a black long-sleeve shirt that reminded me of the outfit Evy had worn several years ago on our trip to the City of the Dead.

"I wonder what she's doing?" I mused out-loud as I combed my hair before walking outside of the tent and joining the other women for breakfast. I knew Ardeth would be out soon so I decided to wait until he came out to tell him that I had decided to go to London and visit Jon, Evy, Rick and my god-son Alex.

Unfortunately I didn't get to talk to Ardeth before he had to leave for patrol which meant that he would be gone for the next month. That didn't cause me to waver however instead I wrote him a note and tied it to Chi, my tamed falcon, who took it to him. I packed lightly only taking three pairs of clothes and after hesitating for several moments I opened the trunk that held our blankets and removed them from the trunk and opened the small box that lay at the bottom of the trunk.

I traced the symbol Ardeth had carved into the lid of the wooden box before opening it and gazing at the small golden chain which held a lioness with sapphire's in place of eyes and the solar disk earring, upright cobra earring and the Eye of Ra earring as well as the four earrings which were hieroglyphs that spelled out the name Sekhmet.

It was the jewelry I had taken from the treasure room at the City of the Dead. I hadn't told Ardeth about them or the voice that had whispered to me when I had touched them, not because I wanted to hide them but because each time I thought about telling him I would suddenly forget.

Shaking my head to rid myself of all the thoughts and questions that piled on-top of each other I shut the box and pulled it out putting it into a pair of my clothes and wrapping my clothes around it before shoving it into the single bag I would be taking with me. I didn't write ahead, deciding I wanted to surprise them so I set off, feeling a rush of excitement to be traveling again.

Not that I didn't enjoy the life I had with Ardeth whom I had married not two months after we said goodbye to Evy, Jon and Rick, but settling down in a single place even if we did ride out a few days ride every so often just wasn't enough for me.

I loved to travel, learn new things and go to new places and honestly, I really wanted to get away from all the looks I was getting from the Medjia people who were beginning to wonder why I hadn't produced an heir yet. In some-ways I was glad I hadn't gotten pregnant yet. I feared being a mother as I hadn't had one I had really no knowledge of what to do during the early years of childhood. In another way though I really did long for a child after seeing Alex and how happy Evy and Rick were.

Once again shaking myself out of my thoughts I returned to the present and added a few daggers to my pack and then my body before putting the twin swords and their holder on my back Ardeth had made the holder and had the swords made for me as a wedding present. Apparently that had definitely not been normal for the Medjia men to give their to be wives as both Ardeth and I had been given strange looks and whispers had floated around for several weeks afterwards.

I tightened the holder into place and left the tent, I waited until Chi flew back to me bereft of the note I had tied to his leg and placed him back with the other falcons making sure to double check with the men who fed them that Chi would be fed and exercised while I was gone. Upon getting affirmation, I hopped bareback onto my mare, Lilac. One of the women who had become a close friend followed me on her camel so she could take Lilac back when I boarded the ship to London.

Aboard the ship I found myself unable to sleep as the strange voice invaded my thoughts almost every time I closed my eyes and I began to see strange things. I wasn't sure if it was the lack of sleep that was causing me to have such weird visions or if it had something to do with the large amount of coffee that I was continuously consuming to keep myself awake.

"Probably a mixture of the two." I thought taking another sip of my cooling black coffee as I stared out over the railings thinking of nothing in particular as I waited for the sun's first ray's to break over the waters so I could see where we were. When the first warm peach colored ray's started to color the skies I found myself relieved as I could see the outline of London in the near distance.

Impatiently and more then a little jittery, two and a half weeks with barely ten hours of sleep and drinking more coffee then an entire legion of soldiers, at least I thought so, had already given me a slight shake but add in the adrenaline rush I got from seeing the outline of London and the excitement at seeing Jon, Evy, Rick and Alex caused me to shake like a hummingbirds wings.