*I decided to finally do something nice for you and made this chapter really long so that we could find out who the Knowledgeable One is sooner.*

Chapter Thirty: The Sands of Egypt

"A little more persistence, a little more effort and what seemed a hopeless failure may turn to glorious success." –Elbert Hubbard

Nina had a resurgence of faith; she had to finish this. She noisily got up from the table and marched off. Fabian and KT were close behind, and after some coaxing from Patricia and Eddie, Aflie was able to leave his bacon. The Sibunas followed Nina up to her room. They sat on the floor as Nina paced back and forth.

"Nina, you're burning a hole in the floor. What are we doing?" KT asked.

"I'm trying to think of what to do, because honestly I don't know anymore," she responded while taking a seat on the floor next to her friends.

They sat in silence for a moment, and then it happened. A cloud of mist began to form by the window. Patricia asked KT, "Did we forget to close the window?"

"I distinctly remember closing it this morning," KT responded. Everyone stood up and Patricia walked over to see if the mist was coming in from outside.

She turned and said, "The window's shut tight." Everyone stared as Patricia walked back and stood next to Eddie.

A small figure began to appear through the mist; it was a girl with long, wavy brown hair. "What do you want?" Nina asked.

"Calm down, Nina," the figure said. It took a moment for the mist to clear away enough so they could tell who it was: Sami.

Patricia smiled at her sister. "I have come to give you a clue," Sami said. She took out a piece of paper and read: "Find the objects that represent the gods, find them and you will succeed. All will be revealed." Before they could ask any more questions, Sami left.

Patricia mumbled something inaudible to herself and sighed. "Is that any help?" Alfie asked.

"Yes," Nina responded. "Now we know that it can be any object, not a specific one." Nina breathed a sigh of relief. She had been worried because two days was not going to be enough to find all of those objects. She smiled to herself, they just had to come up with an idea and find an object. The object could be anything as long as it represented that specific god. This was going to be a lot easier now. Nina was able to breathe easier now. She smiled and the Sibunas signed off and they all went back down to breakfast.

Nina was glad that the day had been shortened due to some activities that were going on because Sibuna needed to get to work. Fabian had a large piece of paper that they were brainstorming on. Each god had its own column that they wrote down information and ideas in.

The easiest had been Ra. They already had his column filled out: Ra; sun god; matches, flashlight, and burning candle. The other ones were bringing more difficulty. After a while, they had a plan for Anubis. Their plan was to use scales to represent the weighing of the heart. They also had an idea for Horus. They were going to use one of Victor's stuffed birds that were hidden down in the cellar. However, they had no plan for Seth, Isis, or Osiris. They were stuck.

The Sibunas sat for another hour or so, trying to figure out what to do. Finally, Alfie and Eddie got up and went to get brain food. It was when they were gone that the girls and Fabian came up with their next idea. They were sitting on the floor when Patricia decided to open the window because it had gotten hot and stuffy in the room and a huge gust of wind came through. It knocked a little box off of Nina's dresser and a little bit of sand fell out of it. "Where's that sand from?" Fabian asked.

"It's from the beach back home," she responded as if it was no big deal. Fabian stared at her like she wasn't figuring out some huge idea that was written on his face. "Fabian, stop staring at me like that and tell me what's going on in your mind," Nina demanded.

"Seth is the god of the desert and we can use the sand for representing him," Fabian said.

"Four down and two to go," KT said while giving high fives to everyone.

A few minutes later Alfie and Eddie came back with handfuls of food, only to figure out that the others had gotten an idea when they were gone.

"You couldn't wait?" Alfie asked with a fake hurt face. Everyone laughed. Nina realized that it felt so good to finally laugh. That's what Nina loved about Sibuna; no matter how complicated things got with the mysteries, they could always make her laugh and momentarily forget about her problems.

"Any other ideas?" Fabian asked. No one said anything for a while. They got to brainstorming again and after about two more hours of silly ideas, talking, and some thinking, Trudy called that dinner was ready. Sibuna ate slowly that night so they could have a few moments of peace.

They stayed up late that night so they could have all of their ideas figured out and so they wouldn't have to do too much tomorrow because things would already be difficult due to stress. They finally came up with the idea that for Isis; they would let Alfie use his magic kit and for Osiris they would use a knife to represent his murder. They weren't the best ideas ever, but they worked. The final tally was complete and the only thing they had left to do was get the objects.

They all finally got to bed after a long night and prepared for a long day tomorrow.

A voice spoke through Nina's dream: "Hurry Chosen One. You don't have much time left. Hurry! The Adagnitio needs you! Spread the offerings in a circle in the cellar, light candles all around. They will come. Hurry! Hurry!" The voice died down and Nina awoke. She was barely conscious for a second. The only thought she had before falling back into a deep sleep was that she knew what Sibuna had to do.

Nina woke up the next morning, unsure of what today was at first. Suddenly it hit her. It was Saturday, January 30; the day that the Knowledgeable One was to be revealed. She looked at her clock: 8 a.m. She needed to be up a long time ago if she was going to get this done today. She got up and started to get ready. She let KT and Patricia rest for a while longer while they could; today was going to be a really long day for everyone.

*Tomorrow is the ceremony! Are you excited yet?*