Previously:

Ma'at seems a bit surprised. "My father is not here," She tells them.

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"If he isn't here, he's somewhere else," Neah points out. "Maybe he left a clue as to where."

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"I don't think you should be reading them out loud," Naomi warns, then is knocked forward. She reaches up to the back of her head to see what has hit her and finds a metal spoon is quite stuck on her hat. She pulls it off with great difficulty, but then finds she can't get it off her hand. It's like it's magnetically stuck there. "Ally!"

Ally blinks at her in surprise as she turns the page in her book. A bit of dust wafts up and wisps up Ally's nose. Her sneeze is violent. The room seems to shake. Ally flies back about three feet. "Oh my," She says, her eyes wide.

Episode Ninety-Four

"Unusual Innocuous Occurrence"

She watches as Neah walks over to Izanami, Pizoku and Raul. The girl is very thoughtful she decides, to make sure everyone is kept well hydrated and fed. But Ma'at is still bothered by the rather emptiness that they have found at Heliopolis. Or more importantly, the lack of her father.

She turns to her right to see Legana Jilan sit down next to her on the low ruins of a wall. "It made sense," Ma'at says to Jilan. "He should be at Heliopolis."

"It's been a while," Jilan reminds the other alien. "You were in stasis for how many years?" Jilan looks out at the nearby buildings of Cairo. "Maybe your father was forced to leave when the city expanded."

Ma'at shakes her head and stands. "Then there must be a clue or something he left behind." She runs her hand along one of the walls and wipes away the dust to see if the writing beneath is still clear.

"Was he only the Egyptian Phoenix?" Ma'at and Jilan turn around to see Reese walking up to them. Taylor and Ashlee follow close behind him.

Ma'at thinks about this. "No, I believe many were influenced by him."

Taylor looks at the blonde with consideration. "Why do you ask?" He seems to already know that Reese may have thought of something that they all could have missed.

"In the Greek version of the Phoenix, it would live in Arabia," Reese explains, looking at each of them. "It only flew to Heliopolis after it had been reborn to take the ashes of its former self there."

Ma'at thinks about this. Jilan looks taken by surprise. Taylor sighs. Ashlee is clearly annoyed. "We may be in the wrong desert?"

Around that time in Paris,

A butterfly. The Sunset Morpho. Morpho hecuba. The largest of the Morpho genus at about eight inches is an equatorial butterfly only found in the lower Amazon Rain forest and Suriname.

Not so commonly found in Paris, France. Which is most likely the reason why so many people find that they are almost inexplicably drawn to observe them.

They flutter daintily and gracefully along and the crowds follow their every erratic, yet strangely hypnotic movements about the town.

It crosses the mind of no one that perhaps this unusual occurrence might be somewhat sinister in its seemingly innocuous nature.

Wayne of Nine watches with a satisfied smile as the weak minded humans are reduced to the perfect mindless minions that his masters so greatly desire. And not a single one is aware of it.

While at Hogwarts,

"Where is he?" Naomi is beyond exasperated. She stomps down the quiet hallway and looks rather a sight, what with various metal objects sticking off of her hat.

"That shouldn't have worked," Ally says apologetically and confused. "I didn't have a wand." She grabs at a fork on Naomi's shoulder and pulls it off. "Nor am I a witch. Or human for that matter." She throws the fork away. "Nothing should have happened." Ally cringes as the fork whaps onto Naomi again.

Naomi rubs her side. "Yes, well apparently it did. And now we need someone to fix it."

"Do we really though?" Ally asks hopefully. "I mean, is it so bad?"

Naomi whirls around on her. "Metal things fly across the room and stick to my body! I'm a walking magnet!"

"Maybe it's just your personality," Ally suggests hopefully. She smiles. There is a crinkling noise.

Naomi frowns and looks at Ally's paw. "What do you have?"

"What do you mean?" Ally asks innocently.

Naomi narrows her eyes. "What are you hiding?"

"Oh, you mean this," Ally holds up the small yellowish paper. "Just a bit of parchment."

Naomi isn't placated. "What's written on it?"

"The spells I read," Ally replies. "In case whomever is helping us needs to know."

Naomi watches as Ally walks past her. "Right." She is fairly disbelieving. Ally hides the parchment further so as to avoid further questions. She doesn't want Naomi to take it from her. Not before she's found the perfect test subject.

To Be Continued...