It’s our name, KANE.”Ĭarter shook his head. Inside the circle were two simple symbols, a basket and a wave. He pointed to a cartouche at the very end of the list-the last entry in what looked to be a catalogue of thousands. All the other words were protected by cartouches, and I couldn’t make sense of them. But I looked at the lines, and saw what he meant. “And possibly also from other magicians reading their names.” They’re supposed to protect the holder of the name from evil magic.” He eyed me. “Excuse me?” I asked, because cartouche sounded like a rather rude word, and I pride myself on knowing those. Look, they’re all written inside cartouches.” “So why do I care about the pharaohs’ blood, and why can’t I read any of the rest?”Ĭarter stared at the lines. Sort of like referring to the president as ‘the White House.’ So here it probably means more like Blood of the Pharaohs, all of them, the whole lineage of all the dynasties, not just one guy.” “The word literally means ‘great house,’ like the king’s mansion. Oh, it’s pharaoh, isn’t it? But I thought a pharaoh was a king?” “What do the words sound like in Egyptian?” “Only that bit where the title should be. I frowned at the writing, and the odd thing was, I couldn’t read it-except for one line at the top. “Can you read any of this?” Carter asked. He’d found a papyrus that was quite long, and most of the text on it seemed to be lines of hieroglyphs. No accounting for them.Ĭarter opened another scroll. Muffin turned and raced up the stairs, back into the Great Room. “Apophis was a giant snake monster,” Carter muttered. When I looked over, her tail was puffed up. “What kind of name is that? What’ve you got, The Heavenly Badger?” “The Book of the Heavenly Cow,” Carter read on one. Each canister was labeled in hieroglyphs and (fortunately) in English.
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The plastic cylinders were the kind you might find at a drive-through bank-the kind that shoot up and down the pneumatic tubes. I grew so frustrated I wanted to ha-di them into a million pieces, but I was still so hungry and tired, I had the feeling that spell would not be good for my health.įinally we decided to check the cubbyholes round the walls. We tried holding them while giving them orders, though they were quite heavy. If the statues were answerers, they weren’t very good at it. He looked at the four ceramic statues on their pedestals. “Carter, make a helpful suggestion! What do we do now?” “Wait!” I picked him up again and shook him. With that, he turned back to lifeless wax. Making educated guesses is a completely different task. The five gods of the Demon Days released? Wonderful! And anyone who duels with the Red Lord-” I wasn’t sure that was the best idea, but I supposed a ten-centimeter-tall statue couldn’t do us that much harm.