ridiculous dreams. I found myself in Mamose's tomb lost in a labyrinth
of passages-. I was searching for the burial chamber, opening doors, but
there were always people in the rooms that I looked into. Duraid was
working in one room and he looked up and said, 'Remember the protocol of
the four bulls. Start at the beginning.' He was so real and alive. I
wanted to go to him but the door closed in my face, and I knew I would
never see him again.' Tears filled her eyes and glistened in the light
of the campfire.
Nicholas sought to distract her from the painful memory. 'Who were in
the other rooms?' he asked.
'In the next room was Nahoot Guddabi. He laughed spitefully and said,
The jackal chases the sun,' and his head changed into the head of
Anubis, the jackal god of the cemetery, and he yelped and barked. I was
so frightened that I ran.'
She sipped her coffee. 'It was all meaningless and silly, but von
Schiller was in the next room, and he rose in the air and flapped his
wings and said, 'The vulture rises, and the stone falls.' I hated him so
much I wanted to strike him, but then he was gone.'
'And then you woke up?'Nicholas suggested.
'No. There was one other room.'
Who was in it?'
She dropped her eyes, and her voice was small, 'You were,' she said.
'Me? What did I say?' He smiled.
'You didn't say anything,' she whispered, and blushed so suddenly and
fiercely that he was instantly intrigued.
'What did I do then?' He was still smiling.
'Nothing. I mean, I can't tell you.' The dream returned to her, vivid
and real as life, every detail of his naked body, even the smell and the
feel of him. She forced herself to stop thinking about it. She felt
vulnerable as she had been in the dream.
'Tell me about it he insisted.
'No! She stood up quickly, confused and still blushing, trying to thrust
the images from her.
Last night had been the first time in her life that she first time she
had ever dreamed of a man in that way, the had ever experienced a full
orgasm in her sleep. This morning, when she awoke, she found that she
had soaked right through her pyjamas bottoms.
'We have a full day ahead of us with no work to do,' she blurted - the
first thought that came into her mind.
have On the contrary.' He stood up with her. 'We still to make the
arrangements for getting out of here. When the time comes, we will
probably be in something of a hurry.'
'Mind if I tag along?' she asked.
wo teams, the Buffaloes and the Elephants, with only their foremen
missingi were waiting, for them at the quarry. They comprised sixty of
the strongest men in the Tabour force. Nicholas unrill from one of the
pallets.
packed the inflatable Avon rafts neat pack, with Each raft was deflated
and folded into a ese craft had been the paddles strapped along the
sides. It is specifically designed for river'running in turbulent water,
