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| Gabrielle sighed, "What exactly do you want to know?" Alex rolled his eyes as if she should know exactly what he was talking about, "If you and Jonathan have-" "SHHHH! Blimey Alex, I don't want your parent's to know we're even having this discussion." Gabrielle hissed. "Soo?" Alex asked, not fazed by her demands to lower his voice. "No. No we haven't. Almost�but not quite." "How do you almost-" "ALRIGHT that's enough! I've had enough of this conversation, new topic please." Gabrielle pronounced, and Alex could see a hint of embarrassment in her red cheeks. Just to prove she didn't want to talk about it, she turned a bit on her camel. "Okay, okay�don't get peevish." Awkward silence. "I do hope Jonathan marries you though." And Gabrielle finally turned to look at him, smiling widely. "I hope so too." Jonathan turned around on his camel suddenly and shot Gabrielle a puzzled look, and for a horrific moment she thought he might have heard everything they had been talking about. "What are you talking about back there?" Desiree ([email protected]) June 17, 2002 "Nothing!" Gabrielle glared at Alex fleetingly and rode up next to Jonathan. "All right!" Jonathan smiled and took Gabrielle's hand. Gabrielle's tension was swept away by the amazingly cute man riding along next to her. Alex, feeling very pleased with himself for annoying Gabrielle, galloped up to Adom. "I swear, those two are meant for each other." Evie smiled to herself. "Who? Jonathan and Gabrielle?" Rick looked questioningly at Evie. "Oh, well, them too..." "Well, who are meant for each other? Nefret and Ardeth?" Rick was confused. "Yeah, no- I, uh, actually meant Alex and Adom." Did Rick really believe her? "Alex and Adom?" Rick had a look that said What? on it. "Yeah!" She couldn't help it anymore- Evie started laughing hysterically. "You're so gullible! Of course Nefret and Ardeth! Although, Alex and Adom and Jonathan and Gabrielle are too." "Ah, you meant Ardeth and Nefret- that makes more sense. Oh shut up- stop giggling!" Rick's annoyance just made Evie laugh harder, so Rick leaned over and smacked Evie on the bottom. "AH! Rick!" Now it was Rick's turn to laugh as Evie almost knocked herself out of her own saddle. "Ugh!" Rick, who was still laughing, addressed the whole group, "All right! Everybody gather round." Rick looked up at the sun, It's getting late he thought. "Ok, listen up." Rick looked at the people in the circle around him. Ardeth stood on his right side- Ha! My right hand man, he thought, next to Ardeth stood Nefret looking around curiously, Evie was mounted next to Nefret, then Gabrielle, then Jonathan holding Gabrielle's hand, then Alex, then Adom, and finally- on his left side, was Osiris. "This is what's gonna happen..." ~*~*~*~*~ "Alex, Adom! Hurry up." Evie whispered just in case there was someone nearby who might hear them. "Gabrielle, Nefret- it's time. Nefret, let's go." "Good luck." "Thanks." Evie and Gabrielle embraced each other. Nefret nodded at Gabrielle and waved as Evie and Nefret started slinking away. Evie looked around the courtyard cautiously. "Nefret? How are we going to find the Golden Book of Amun-Ra? I don't even know where to start looking!" "Well, we've got to start somewhere! Let's try the main entrance courtyard- maybe it's there somewhere." "Yeah, all right. Let's go." Evelyn and Nefret started walking over to the courtyard under shadow, until suddenly they found they were out in the open. "Shit! Hurry- let's get out of here. I don't like being out in the open." But, before they could flee, the two women heard a man yell out. "Hey! Who are you?! What're you doing here?!" "RUN!!" Both women turned to run, but instead they ran into a sturdy man who grabbed at them and secured Evie, but Nefret got away. Two more guards came up and tried to tackle Nefret, but she was too quick for them. Nefret quickly grabbed the trident Gabrielle had leant to her from her belt, and jumped up to face the recovering guards. "Get her!" The first guard unsheathed his sword and ran at Nefret, trying to disorient her. Nefret was too skilled to fall for that, so she sidestepped him and the guard was soon sprawled out on the ground. Nefret kicked his |