Four days later
Adrianna and Caesar were finishing up packing all of their items onto the backs of the camels and were taking the last few pictures of the bare tomb. Caesar had the digital camera and Adrianna had a Canon Rebel X-1 camera with several different filters and lenses. The two took their time in hopes of getting images of the entire tomb. Adrianna wanted to make sure that the two of them got images of all the writings and everything else in the tomb.
After about two hours of constantly taking pictures, Adrianna and Caesar stopped and looked at each other. “I believe that we are ready to go,” Adrianna said as she looked back into the tomb and, with a heavy heart, sighed as she relived the encounter with Black Adam. He had haunted her thoughts and even her dreams for the past four days. She walked out of the tomb and headed towards the camels and then, once at her camel, she again sighed and looked at Caesar.
“What do you know of Black Adam?” Adrianna asked.
“Well I know that several months ago he got into a fight with Captain Marvel and Kid Marvel in Fawcett City. It was all over the news and everything. Other than that,” Caesar hesitated in telling her more, especially after what he had read in the inscriptions in the tomb, “I don’t really know anything else.”
Adrianna looked down and said, “Well I don’t really read the papers and I barely watch TV.” She then smiled at Caesar and said, “But I love watching the Stargate Atlantis series on the Sci-Fi Network.
Caesar just stopped in his tracks and looked at her and shook his head. “Me, I’m more of a Star Trek fan,” Caesar said as he climbed onto the back of one of the camels. Looking over at Adrianna, he still felt guilty about not fully answering her earlier question, since he hadn’t told her all that he truly knew. He had read quite a bit on the walls of the tomb about Black Adam; the writings mentioned that Black Adam had been the queen’s consort, and that he had been a good man who had used his powers for the good of the people. But after the death of the queen he had changed; he started to kill his own people in Khandaq. The walls of the tomb didn’t go into detail too much about what he had truly done to his people but Caesar had found out that the goddess Isis had the power to heal all injuries and illnesses. This was something that gave Caesar great hope for his sister.
Adrianna again looked back at the tomb and took a few pictures of the outside of the tomb. “I wish that I was able to take the tomb as well, but I am more than happy with what we have here at the moment.”
Adrianna and Caesar got their camels going towards the city that they had been in before their trip to the desert. Once there, they took the camels to the airport and had some people there load the items into the plane and, once the items were all inside the plane, Adrianna and Caesar both boarded it.
The plane took off and headed first for England and to the Newquay Cornwall airport. There the plane refueled and Adrianna and Caesar both disembarked for about an hour so that they could relieve themselves and get something to eat and drink before the plane took off again.
Once the plane was refueled and heading off towards Fawcett City Airport, Caesar turned to Adrianna. “What do you know of the goddess Isis?” he asked her.
Adrianna turned to Caesar and, not sure what to say, she said the first thing that came to her mind. “She was an Egyptian goddess, the protector of the pharaoh. She had the power over certain aspects of nature, for instance she could make the rains come and leave, she could make the sun come out and stay out if need be. She was also the mother of Horus and sister to Nephthys, and wife to Osiris. But, past that, not too much. Why? Is something wrong?”
Caesar looked over at Adrianna and shook his head. “No, it’s just that part of the tomb made reference to Isis that’s all. So, I was wondering if perhaps you might know a bit more about her than say I would?”
“Oh I see,” said Adrianna as she went back to looking down at her notebook which contained the writings that she had copied down that Caesar’s spell had made visible to her.
She’d read a good deal of the history of the queen herself. It mentioned how she had lived for so many years and that while she lived and ruled Egypt it had been prosperous and peaceful. It also mentioned how she had two children during that time. One a boy and one a girl. It also mentioned how she had put down several possible invasions of her kingdom. Again Adrianna sighed as her mind wandered and it seemed like when it wandered all it could think about was Black Adam and how handsome he was and how nice it would be to have him hold her. How she longed to stare into his eyes and feel him.
Adrianna was awoken by Caesar shaking her. “Adrianna, wake up. We are at Fawcett City Airport,” he said as he saw her open her eyes. He smiled at her and then turned back to looking out of the window as the plane taxied down the run way towards the main building and the truck that waited for them. Once the plane had come to a full stop Adrianna stood up and stretched, her body arching backwards a bit to crack her back and shoulders. She looked at Caesar and smiled. “It is good to be home again. Egypt was quite beautiful, but there is just no place like home.”
“There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home,” he said with a smile as he tapped his heels together and stretched from the twelve-hour flight. “Where’s the beef?” he said as he grabbed his small carry-on bag and walked off the plane.
Adrianna started to laugh so hard that she almost fell over and, despite clutching her stomach, she ended up getting a stitch. “Oh, you are too much, you know that, Caesar?”
Caesar smiled and nodded his head. “At least I got you to laugh, Miss ‘I’m so serious all the time’,” he said, shaking his head and his finger while saying it.
Again Adrianna smiled and tried so hard not to laugh. “Now I can fully understand how it is that you can do your tours. You are a royal riot,” she said as she moved over to where there were several men gathered around a large white box truck. One of the men was a very tall man with black hair and Adrianna looked up at him and smiled. “Can you gentlemen get the boxes out of the cargo area of the plane and load them into the truck and take them to the museum of natural history, please?” she asked them.
The very tall man smiled and nodded to the other four men that were with him, then he turned back to Adrianna. “Certainly, Dr. Thomas,” he said and he nodded and headed for the plane, the other men following him.
Adrianna watched them walking towards the plane and smiled at how the men listened to the tall black-haired man. She turned to Caesar and smiled. “Now that is what I call authority. He didn’t even have to say anything to those men and they followed him to the plane.”
Caesar tried to get a good look at the tall black-haired man but, not being able to, he just nodded and smiled. “So what do you say to a nice dinner with me tonight to celebrate our good fortune on this expedition?”
Adrianna looked from the man removing boxes from the plane towards Caesar and nodded. “Alright, that sounds like a plan.”
“Great, I’ll pick you up at the museum at six then?” he said as he walked away and then, as if out of nowhere, a white Lamborghini appeared, which Caesar climbed into the passenger seat of, and it drove off.
Adrianna watched the Lamborghini with Caesar in it drive off and she shook her head as she turned back to watch the men unloading the boxes of items. Once all the boxes had been removed from the truck, the tall man turned to Adrianna.