Episode Seventy-Three
"Mixing Sparks and Powder"
Pizoku watches the couple walking ahead of them thoughtfully. Ma'at and Thoth are leading the way to their temple and talking quietly.
"What do you think they're talking about?" Jilan asks as she walks next to Pizoku.
"Probably the fact that they haven't seen each other for how many centuries," Pizoku supposes.
"It didn't feel like that long to them," Neah points out from behind them.
Jilan holds up her hands. "Hello Honey, How was your stasis?" She makes one of her hands talk in a deeper voice, apparently being Thoth.
"Oh it was just peachy, even if we were taken from our temple and dumped in the Nile and the Dead Sea." Her left hand responds to the Thoth hand.
"Well it is good to moisturize on occasion." Thoth hand replies.
Pizoku muses on this. "Salt water takes moisture out of the skin."
Jilan ignores him and continues her hand conversation. "How long were we asleep?" Thoth hand asks.
"Oh, about a few centuries, give or take some decades." Ma'at hand replies.
"Oh really?" Thoth hand replies.
"Quite." Ma'at hand nods.
"How is the world?"
"Gone to Shit."
"Can we go back to sleep?"
"No."
Neah smiles as Pizoku laughs. "It must be disconcerting for them," She says. "All of this history has happened on Earth and elsewhere, and they've been sleeping in boxes."
"Sarcophagi," Pizoku corrects. Then frowns. "I think."
"It's not easy to adjust to having lost time," Neah states as she looks at the two supposed gods leading the way.
Pizoku studies her for a moment. "You sound like you have experience with that."
Neah licks her lips. "Time is a very tricky thing," She says. "For every one year that passes on my homeworld, fifty earth standard pass for the rest of the universe."
Pizoku feels more than stunned by this revelation. "Wow."
"Taylor's two years older than the rest of us," Jilan throws out. Pizoku catches the look Neah shoots at her.
"He went into the future once," Neah explains, "And lived there for two years before returning. For us no time passed, but he was two years older."
Pizoku frowns, looking back and forth between the girls. "Why? What happened in that time?"
Neah looks down at the sand. "He never said."
"He refuses to say," Jilan amends. "We can only assume from that." Pizoku looks at each girl again and can tell she means assume the worst.
"It is close," Ma'at calls to them. "But I feel we must hurry."
"Why?" Pizoku asks, but picks up his pace.
Neah glances at the sky behind her and sees the clouds forming overhead. "A storm is coming."
Meanwhile, in the Leaky Cauldron
Ally is torn between bring amused at the fleeing witches and wizards and being freaked out by the many fiery sparks that cascade through the air. "Well that worked."
"What did you do?" Naomi hisses from beside her. She ducks as best as she can to avoid the swirling figures.
"I'm not entirely sure," Ally admits as she watches the sparking swirls fly through the air above them. "But it ended up being rather effective, wouldn't you agree?"
Naomi sniffs the air and looks down. "I think your tail is on fire."
"Nonsense, it's just smoldering a bit," Ally waves her off and looks about. "The room looks clear."
"Funny how an intense shower of sparks will do that," Naomi cracks.
"Right then," Ally puffs herself up. "To the floo powder." She pounces into action and bolts across the room. Naomi follows close behind her and they scurry as fast as they can towards the fire place.
"Watch out!" Naomi shrieks as a swirl dives down towards them. Ally skids to a halt but Naomi doesn't and the two slide forwards into the large pot. It topples over and dumps glittery powder all over them.
"I think we got the powder," Ally coughs and spits some out onto the floor.
Naomi wheezes and hacks. "I think I have some in my lungs."
"Ok then," Ally says as the swirls attack the tables. "Into the Fire."
"You first." Naomi looks doubtfully at the fireplace beside them.
Ally jumps into the fireplace and throws down the powder. "Hogwarts!"
Naomi jumps back as the green flame swirls around the cat. She can't help but think that just saying Hogwarts is a bit vague, but the cracking sounds from behind alert her to the arrival of apparating wizards and the vagueness doesn't concern her as much anymore.
Naomi jumps into the fireplace. "Hogwarts!" She cries and in flash of Floo flame, she is gone.
To Be Continued...
