The Alignment Ingress by Thomas Greanias

Author:Thomas Greanias [Greanias, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Published: 2013-03-31T06:00:00+00:00

NIANTIC LINKS

Ingress

Possible shooting near Zurich HB

Lost book about Exotic Matter

Internal NIA hit order

Strategic Explorations—company profile

CHAPTER 7

Meroe

Beneath the Nubian pyramids of Meroe, Conrad stared at Serena as a half-dozen armed militants poured into the antechamber behind her. From their rags and badges Conrad recognized them as local thugs. The jarring juxtaposition of the Catholic Church’s “It Girl” with Egyptian extremists gave him a start beyond the AK-47 machine guns.

“What’s a nice little Catholic girl doing in a place like this with these fanatics?” he deadpanned, but his heart skipped a beat and he didn’t know if it was from the AK-47s or his first sight of her in the flesh since South America.

“Trying to stop you from ruining the integrity of another archaeological site, Conrad Yeats.” Passion filled her soft brown eyes, but her hard Australian accent and use of his full name gave her voice an edge. “Look what you did to the relief on this wall you blew up! Gone forever! We’ll never know what was on it.”

She was pointing to the rubble on the floor, and it was indeed a jigsaw puzzle nobody could put back together, much like their relationship.

He looked up and saw a doorway beyond that wasn’t there before. How could he have missed it? It probably led to an adjoining annex chamber. But it didn’t explain how she got to that annex chamber in the first place. “Why do I have the feeling that you already know everything about this place?”

“Please,” she said with that dismissive air of the academic she employed whenever she wanted to put distance between them. “This tomb was already robbed centuries ago by workers building the adjacent pyramid. We came through the tunnel they dug from there to here. It was carefully blocked.”

Conrad called her bluff. “Who knew nuns made such great liars?”

“I’m not a nun, you wanker, I’m a sister,” she fumed, terrifying in her raging beauty. “There’s a difference.”

“Well, Sister, I think you’re protecting something.”

“Yes, I am,” Serena insisted. “I’m protecting this World Heritage Site on behalf of UNESCO, NCAM and the government of Sudan. Meroe bears a unique testimony to perhaps the greatest civilization of sub-Saharan Africa before it disappeared.”

“You should talk. It was the arrival of Christianity in the sixth century that expunged the Kushite civilization. I’m surprised these fanatics are helping you.”

“Helping me keep this tomb buried, Conrad. Modern extremists consider all that is ancient Egyptian to be pagan, pure evil. The last thing they want is for what’s down here to come back to Egypt.”

“What happens in Nubia stays in Nubia?” Conrad raised an eyebrow.

Serena sighed. “Something like that.”

“And what gives you the right to keep this buried from the world?” Conrad demanded.

“I’ve been to United Nations refugee camps all over Africa,” she told him, her voice suddenly soft. “More than five million souls have perished in the Congo alone over conflict metals. The last thing Sudan needs is some spectacular find to start more bloodshed.”

She was looking over his shoulder now, past the statue of Isis to whatever was beyond the wall.

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