Ancient World 02 - Raiders of the Nile
“My heart skipped a beat. “What is that noise?” I said.
Artemon gave me a thin smile. “Shall we go and find out? Follow me, Pecunius.”
He stepped from the dais and made his way to a trailhead almost hidden by vegetation at the edge of the clearing. The narrow path headed in a direction new to me. The way was little used, to judge by the rank vegetation that turned the path into a tunnel of sun-dappled greenery. Looking over my shoulder, I saw that the rest of the men followed us in single file, ...headed by Djet and Menkhep.
After many a twist and turn, we emerged in another clearing, so similar in size and shape to the one we had just left that for a moment I thought we had doubled back. Then I saw the long, wide pit that ran from one side of the clearing to the other, so deep that I couldn’t see the bottom of it. Artemon pulled me aside, allowing the others to file past us into the clearing. They encircled the long pit and crowded along its edges.
Ismene appeared, standing only a few feet away from me.MoreLess
Artemon gave me a thin smile. “Shall we go and find out? Follow me, Pecunius.”
He stepped from the dais and made his way to a trailhead almost hidden by vegetation at the edge of the clearing. The narrow path headed in a direction new to me. The way was little used, to judge by the rank vegetation that turned the path into a tunnel of sun-dappled greenery. Looking over my shoulder, I saw that the rest of the men followed us in single file, ...headed by Djet and Menkhep.
After many a twist and turn, we emerged in another clearing, so similar in size and shape to the one we had just left that for a moment I thought we had doubled back. Then I saw the long, wide pit that ran from one side of the clearing to the other, so deep that I couldn’t see the bottom of it. Artemon pulled me aside, allowing the others to file past us into the clearing. They encircled the long pit and crowded along its edges.
Ismene appeared, standing only a few feet away from me.MoreLess
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