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Chapter 24: Sarah's Clue
"'For a while' is a phrase whose length can't be measured. At least by the person who's waiting."
-Haruki Murakami South of the Border, West of the Sun
The night went on endlessly. None of them slept well and they rolled and flopped around all night. It was annoying because just when someone was almost asleep someone else in the room would roll and create a huge creaking sound and they'd be awake again. Nina watched the hours tick by on the clock and every tick was less time they had to solve the mystery.
Finally it was six a.m. and Nina couldn't stand it anymore. She popped out of bed, so frustrated at her lack of sleep and weirdly Patricia and KT were up soon after. They went downstairs at about seven and Alfie, Eddie, and Fabian were already up too. "Did you guys sleep horribly, too?" Nina asked.
They all nodded their heads in agreement. Patricia rumpled Eddie's bedhead hair and they all sat down. "I was thinking that we could just all go down at lunch; we'll probably be back before class starts so we should be fine," Nina said, taking charge.
The others sleepily nodded their heads, paying enough attention so that they at least knew what was going on. They all sat in pure exhaustion, eating their cereal. The table was more than just unusually quiet. No one was saying anything; Alfie was too tired to say anything silly and neither Patricia nor Eddie talked. The only noise was that of the spoons hitting their bowls.
It was lunch time and none of the Sibuna gang knew how they made it through all of their classes without falling asleep. To be honest, they all fell asleep at one point; even Fabian (it was only for about five seconds though). They all ran out of the school and to Anubis house; they had to do this fast.
They walked into the tunnels and the beam scanned them all. They had brought a chair this time for Nina to stand on. She pushed the button again and the drawer popped out again, but nothing new was in it. "Fabian is it time?" she asked.
He looked at his watch and said, "The sun and the moon should be equal right now." She looked deeper into the drawer.
"Wait," she said, "there's a knob in here." She thought for a moment. "which way do I turn it?"
"East to west, like the rising and setting of the sun," Fabian said. She looked at him with an 'are you sure look'. He said, "The clue. Ra is the sun god."
She nodded her head believing him. She slowly turned the knob going over the sky: east to west. The fell out of the wall revealing a small tunnel and they began to enter.
"Wait," Alfie said before anyone actually got into the tunnel. They turned around to look at him. "Is anyone else concerned about traps; I mean it is Robert Frobisher-Smythe we're dealing with!?"
Nina looked to Fabian, "Alfie, he knew nothing of this Knowledgeable One stuff. I don't think it was him that put this here."
"What do you mean?" Fabian asked.
"Well, I think that maybe Sarah put it here or left hints for her father to put it here. Maybe she told her father to build this room since he knew about the Chosen One stuff… I don't know," she answered.
They went into the tunnels and… nothing happened. There was a small pamphlet- like book at the end called The Book of Flight. Fabian was about to grab it when he stopped; "Is anyone else worried about booby traps?" he asked.
"No," Eddie said. "The way the riddles went, only the Chosen One and Osirian could get in here. Plus think about the other circumstances: a secret room, inside a secret tunnel, inside another secret room, inside a dark cellar, in an old house that's part of a boarding school. What are the odds that some random dude could walk in here and get it?"
Fabian shrugged his shoulders; Eddie had a point. He grabbed the pamphlet; it was all hieroglyphics. And it wasn't like any he had seen before. He had never seen any of these characters in his life. This was going to be fun.