AGELESS CAMPAIGN, Episode II, Part VI.

[Silver Moon]

Ruby smiled. "That is truly amazing. Let's go!" She ran over to the carpet to join her friend and stepped on.

The others step onto the carpet. Neferka says, "As long as I am riding on it none of you with me need to fear falling off, the Chariot will protect us." Neferka says an incantation in ancient Egyptian followed by "Gizah" and "Bast". The carpet rises from the desert floor. It continues to rise until it is at an altitude of around 200 feet and then begins to move forward.

Once it is away from Tel el-Kabir it picks up speed. Ruby has ridden on a flying carpet once before, with her friend Richard Broughton when they were escaping Pinkerton Detectives in Rochester, New York, but this carpet is nothing like that one. One major difference is that the wind is not blowing on them despite the speed it is moving at, which continues to increase until is moving at a speed up to 200 miles per hour.

 

[Queenie]

Ruby held Abby's hand, more from excitement than fear. "It's this crazy! Who knew all this would happen when we woke up today. Er, yesterday. How have you managed? Are you injured? My head is spinning trying to remember what has happened when and to who."

 

[Silver Moon]

"Absolutely, we will make sure to round him up." assures George

Once the Queen and her attendants leave the Egyptian Doctor approaches Maurice Beaujoulais and says, "Queen Neferka has been told that I have stolen from her family so my life here is forfeit. While I did so to help protect and preserve Egypt, it remains a capital offense. I request asylum in the British Empire." Beaujoulais replies, "I am certain that Queen Victoria will grant your request. You have served Torchwood well."

 

[Fenris]

Once the Queen and her attendants leave the Egyptian Doctor approaches Maurice Beaujoulais and says, "Queen Neferka has been told that I have stolen from her family so my life here is forfeit. While I did so to help protect and preserve Egypt, it remains a capital offense. I request asylum in the British Empire." Beaujoulais replies, "I am certain that Queen Victoria will grant your request. You have served Torchwood well."

"I think your service after the fact will make up for that, if you wish us to plead your case before her. And if you truely did take the carpet to hide it and to protect and preserve Egypt, I am sure that a pardon would be granted."

 

[orchid blossom]

Ruby held Abby's hand, more from excitement than fear. "It's this crazy! Who knew all this would happen when we woke up today. Er, yesterday. How have you managed? Are you injured? My head is spinning trying to remember what has happened when and to who."

"Honestly? I'm exhausted. I've been good for nothing but cracking heads for at least 12 hours. I haven't the first clue if I'm hurt, I think I'd actually have to strip and inspect to figure out if I was. I've lost track of who was doing what and all I really want is to sleep. But the blood shed has stopped. We didn't accomplish everything we wanted but the French will not rule Egypt. That will have to be enough."

 

[Silver Moon]

"I think your service after the fact will make up for that, if you wish us to plead your case before her. And if you truely did take the carpet to hide it and to protect and preserve Egypt, I am sure that a pardon would be granted."

Doctor Temepeku says, "I would greatly appreciate your doing so on my behalf, but I believe that I know Neferka better than you, I have known her all of her life. She will feel obligated to make an example of me, regardless of my intentions. As you just saw, the Chariot of the Winds is no mere magical carpet, it is a personal possession of the Pharoah. While he had allowed me to use it before, for me to have taken it this time without the King's permission was wrong.

But please also tell her this, it was I who alerted the Grand Vizier as to the spies who infiltrated the Palace last year. They were a pair of Frenchmen named Pascal and Monteblanc, affiliates of these wizards that attacked our kingdom now."

 

[Silver Moon]

"But the blood shed has stopped. We didn't accomplish everything we wanted but the French will not rule Egypt. That will have to be enough."

Neferka turns to Abigail and says, "It is more than enough. Before she left Bast said that it was you Americans who freed myself and Ahmed from the French. Not only will the French not rule Egypt, but neither will the British, nor will a rebel Army leader who lacks royal blood, although his children now will.

The land will remain the realm of the Pharoahs and we all have the blessings of Bast to thank for that. How she came to be on Earth here today I may never know, but I will be eternally greatful."

 

[Silver Moon]

OOC: Looks like the posts have dropped off. I guess we may be done for the night. Well, we didn't completely finish the module yet but we're close.

 

[orchid blossom]

The land will remain the realm of the Pharoahs and we all have the blessings of Bast to thank for that. How she came to be on Earth here today I may never know, but I will be eternally greatful."

"The priestess Sabah used some items we found and gave to her care, as she serves Bast. I can only imagine she felt the situation was dire enough to use them to allow the goddess to come here. I don't know what becomes of Sabah now," Abby said and swallowed. "I know she would have no regrets in the service of Bast and her homeland."

 

[Silver Moon]

"The priestess Sabah used some items we found and gave to her care, as she serves Bast. I can only imagine she felt the situation was dire enough to use them to allow the goddess to come here. I don't know what becomes of Sabah now," Abby said and swallowed. "I know she would have no regrets in the service of Bast and her homeland."

Neferka says, "Ah, so you Americans also contributed to the goddess's arrival. You truly underestimate your positive influence. Priestess Sabah's name will be remembered alongside that of Princess Nafita, the Bast Priestess and daughter of Pharaoh Ussarken II. She hosted the goddess during her prior visit to Egypt."