Anubis: Death's Mistress by Erik Schubach

Author:Erik Schubach [Schubach, Erik]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Erik Schubach
Published: 2019-04-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10 – Snake Maiden

About halfway to Tanta, my feathered guide had us turn off onto a poorly maintained dirt road. I was in the middle of describing the disparity between the various glyphs found in the Valley of the Kings, which is indicative of many of the developing written languages around the globe as each is influenced by the region and even sometimes by the rulers themselves.

I went on, “And just the differences in location of two separate digs in the same general vicinity, illustrate how even slang can become part of the vernacular of a culture.”

Stephanie had been leaning forward between us listening in rapt fascination as I babbled on for almost ten minutes on the subject. She hissed out, “Fasscinating.”

Then I realized I had gone down a rabbit-hole again and furrowed my brow at the ladies and asked, “What was the original question?”

Olivia gave me an amused and mischievous grin when she supplied, “I had asked if you wanted some water from the canteen.”

“Oh.” I lowered my head to my shoulders, trying to look smaller. How the heck did I get to comparative syntax from canteen?

The tips of my ears burned more when Steph told the Doc, “You've caught yoursself one of thosse beautiful mindss girlss.”

I mumbled, “Shut up.” Then asked to get the attention off of me, “How much farther?”

Falcon-girl placed a warm hand in mine and supplied with a sly smirk. “Oh, we passed it a few minutes back, but your impromptu lecture sucked me in, and I wanted to see where you were going with it. It was that irrigation pump house back there on the right.”

I wanted to die right there. Then I grumped out as I thought back to the drive, supplying, “That was the only building on this road for twenty miles, and it was on the left.” I slowed us and turned around.

She chuckled. “It's on the right coming from this direction since I knew we had to turn around.” She was being all sorts of playful, and the sassy behavior looked good on her.

Stephanie was hissing in laughter at my girl, “You, I like.”

Whatever.

“Come to think of it, I am a little parched.” I reached for the canteen, and they exploded into fits of giggles. What did I say?

Heh. A giggling snake is kind of funny.

The lieutenant seemed to stiffen up a bit as we pulled up to the structure. Olivia instructed me to, “Pull up in the back, there's an open shelter to park... and the vehicles can't be seen from above.” Why would we need to hide our vehicle from... I blurted to our scaled friend, “Does Lazarus have those kind of resources?”

She nodded. Then I just had to ask. “Why did you volunteer? Seeing what happened to the other volunteers...”

She hissed in anger, “I wassn't in Lazaruss when they recruited me from the Sspecial Forcess. None of uss were. We were jusst told the Genessiss Chamber would make uss better ssoldierss. We never ssaw any of

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