Chapter 4:Merye
The first thing Bakari realized when he woke up was the sudden cold. He looked around for the culprit and found it in the open curtain.
"That's strange," he said. "Didn't I close that last night?"
"Bakari," the voice startled him. "It's me, Crissera."
He turned around to see Crissera standing over by the stairs downstairs. "Crissera, where have you been?"
She started to sob and he noticed the stress in her face and the fidgeting of her fingers as she was standing. He rushed over to her and helped her to lie down on the cloths. It took a while but she eventually started to calm down.
"Crissera, where have you been?" he asked.
"I had another vision and I saw this man who seemed the most impossible man ever. He was able to travel in a box and he could go further than the merchants ever could." He was not expecting this kind of response.
"What does this have to do with you leaving?" It was true that Crissera had seen visions before and it was also true that most had actually happened but this one seemed a bit strange.
"I saw the man in the markets."
"And because of this you decided to follow him."
"You don't understand," The stress was starting to return to her voice. "I got down there and there was another man and…" She seemed particularly distressed about this part.
Bakari waited before asking, "And what?"
"And this other man chucked a rock at the impossible man and the impossible man fell to the ground. Then the other man picked him up and carried him away."
"What happened next?"
"Well the other man was going to kill the impossible man but then he found me in my hiding place."
"Wait," Bakari tried to process what he had heard, "he found you when you were trying to hide."
"Yes, but then he talked to the impossible man who managed to get him to leave the room."
"And?" he asked.
"And the Impossible Man freed me from my bonds and I escaped and came hear straight away," she said.
Bakari thought for a while "I think we should find this Impossible Man," he stated.
"Why?" Crissera asked.
"Because he seems to know more about what's going on around here than we do?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, people have disappeared around here and I think I know where they disappeared."
"How?" Crissera asked.
"I was playing with Kakara and Ata in the Pyramid workings and I was being chased by a guard when this thing appeared from nowhere and this strange light killed the guard."
"Did you say the pyramid workings?" Crissera asked.
"Yes, does it mean something to you?"
"The other man told the impossible man to go to the pyramid workings to find a creäture that is killing people recently."
"Then we have to hurry and get there."
"But what do we do about Kakara and Ata?" Crissera asked.
"I'll stay behind, Crissera, you should go to the workings because your power to hide will make it easier for you to go than me."
"Okay," Crissera replied, "I'll go now, goodbye."
"Goodbye, Crissera," Bakari said to her, "good luck."
Crissera walked over to the window and started climbing down the wall. Bakari watched as she started running towards the Pyramid Workings.
Merye walked through the workings. He could have sworn he heard something.
"Stupid thieves," he said to himself, "ruining my last day." He had been brought into the palace as a soldier fifteen years ago and had to leave his family behind. Tomorrow he would finally see his son Menkhaf for the first time grown up. He could still remember the day he left. Menkhaf was a few years old and was growing like a sphinx. Tomorrow he would finally be able to speak to his son and deliver the large amount of money he had saved for him.
Too bad that today some idiot with high hopes of fortune would come into the pyramid and try to steal some gold before it is sealed. This happened all the time but why on Merye's patrol.
He heard some gravel move. Holding up his spear, he walked forward towards the noise.
"Who's there?" he yelled out.
He walked up to the corner and jumped around it.
Merye had no idea what it was. It was the size of an average man and the colour of the sky. It was circular and had sticks attached to parts of it body.
"What kind of animal is this?" he spake.
"IDENTIFY YOURSELF!"
It had the voice of the Gods but there was no mercy. It seemed to glow like the God Ra when is spoke.
"IDENTIFY, IDENTIFY!"
Merye looked at it in dumb silence.
"FAILURE TO IDENTIFY WILL RESULT IN EXTERMINATION!"
Merye fell to his knees, "oh Ra, almighty are you in your creatures."
"SUBJECT HAS IDENTIFIED AS ORA!"
It seemed to shake with anticipation as it spoke.
"SUBJECT IS NOT IN DATABANKS!"
"What?" Merye said in puzzlement.
"SUBJECT WILL BE EXTERMINATED!"
One of the sticks pointed at Merye and it light poured out of it into Merye's chest.
Merye clutched his chest as the pain spread through his body. It was as if his heart was turned inside out and cut in half.
As he fell to the ground, slipping into unconsciousness, he thought of his family.
He would never be able to see his son or wife ever again.