Love across Eternity

Chapter 1

The next morning, archives of the Cairo Museum

Shayera had failed to fall back to sleep after her dream and Dr Aziz had given her the task of tidying up the Museum's archives

Usually, the young woman wouldn't have been happy to have to stay at the Museum to tidy up the archives instead of going to do some excavation, but this time she had accepted without saying anything, not feeling the strength to do any excavations due to fatigue

The young woman, her arms loaded with cardboard boxes, zigzagged between the various shelves of the archives

More Shayera tidied up the archives, more she felt like it would never end

Finally after an hour and a half, the young woman had finished and decided, then, to go borrow a book in the Museum's Library 

So, a few minutes later, she found herself on a ladder 

"Khufu you're out of place ..." Said Shayera, grabbing a book "... your place is over there" 

The young woman stretched out her arm in the direction of the shelf behind her, trying to put the book away but the ladder she had been climbing suddenly straightened up 

"Oh Horus, no ... ok, ok, don't panic, everything is going to be fine ..." Shayera was trying to reassure herself "... don't move and everything will be fine" 

Unfortunately the ladder was starting to lose its balance and to lean forward

Shayera just had time to close her eyes and scream as the ladder hit the shelf 

The shelf hit another shelf, which hit another shelf and so on 

When Shayera opened her eyes again, she was on the floor, her long and beautiful black hair was filled with dust and all the shelves were on the floor

A few papers were still falling on the floor 

"Oops ...

- What's going on here !?" Yelled Dr Aziz, entering the library "What ... How ... Oh, look at this ! Sons of the Pharaohs ! Give me frogs ! Flies ! Locusts ! Anything but YOU ! Compared to you, the other plagues were a joy !

- I'm so very sorry. It was an accident ...

- An accident ? My dear girl, when Rameses destroyed Syria, that was an accident. This, it's a disaster !"

Shayera looked down

"Look at this room ! Why do I put up with you ?

- You put up with me because I can read and write Ancient Egyptian, I can decipher hieroglyphics and hieratic and you, you better than anyone know that I am a great Egyptologist ! 

- No ! Your father was a great Egyptologist, the greatest Egyptologist of all time ! Don't forget it ! Now I don't care how you do it, I don't care how long it takes, straighten up this meshiver ! "

Dr Aziz left the room furious and Shayera began to tidy up the library 

Two hours later, the young woman left the library after having put it away and borrowed the book she wanted

Shayera was walking sadly through the halls of the Museum when suddenly she heard noise from a room closed to the public

She entered, then, carefully, into the room

All seemed normal when suddenly a mummy rose out of its sarcophagus 

Shayera screamed before she heard someone laugh

"Jonathan ! Don't you have any respect !?" Cried Shayera, hitting her brother's arm, who had been hiding in the sarcophagus behind the mummy 

Jonathan jumped out of the sarcophagus continuing to laugh but he suddenly fell silent when he saw the sad look of his little sister 

"Hey, what's going on ?

- Nothing ..." Shayera looked away "... I just slept badly last night ...

- This dream again ?" 

The young woman nodded 

"And earlier I almost destroyed the library ..."

Jonathan had a small smile but immediately resumed his seriousness

"... It was an accident but Dr Aziz was furious ...

- As always with this old asshole, he's always complaining, don't worry about that " Jonathan wanted to be reassuring

"This time it's worse, John, I think he wants to fire me ... 

- Oh no, believe me, he will not do it, he will never take the risk of losing the best Egyptologist there is ..." Jonathan kissed his little sister's head and hugged her "...don't worry for that, everything will work out especially since I came with some info that will surely cheer you up

- Really ?

- Yeah, a few days ago, a young Japanese man called Ryu came to the Museum, apparently he has some info about Hamunaptra ...

- Hamunaptra, the city of the dead ?! But it's a legend 

- No, it's not a legend, he went there, he even has a map that leads straight to there

- It's incredible ! Can you imagine the discovery that it would make ?

- Yes, I can imagine it very well, especially since he is convinced that something is buried under the sand of Hamunaptra 

- Unbelievable ! I absolutely have to meet him !"

Jonathan had a big smile

"I was sure you would say that, he's waiting for us at his hotel, let's go" 

A few minutes later, the siblings were at the hotel where Ryu was staying

Jonathan knocked on the hotel room door

"Hi Jonathan

- Hi Ryu ..." Replied Jonathan, entering the bedroom followed by Shayera "... I present to you my little sister, Shayera, Shayera this is Ryu the young man I told you about "

The moment they were about to say hello, Shayera and Ryu were both shocked

They seemed paralyzed and they couldn't take their eyes off each other 

"It's impossible !" They thought in unison

"The boy of my dream ...

- The girl of my dream ... "

To be continued