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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 6136913" data-attributes="member: 8530">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.</blockquote>