Elerie prepped for the preliminary analysis. She peered down at the screaming face of the sarcophagus.
She felt like screaming herself right now, right then and there. Three years. Three years and no word, nothing. Why now, of all times, did he have to show up again? And right in the middle of their biggest find yet?
A team he'd called them, a team! She felt like snorting at this. A team, really? What the hell Nick?
She readied the equipment. Good, something to take her mind off of the unbelievably infuriating man sitting just a few seats away, watching her.
She turned on the voice recorder again, just like in the tomb, and knelt before the grand, gruesome sarcophagus.
"This is Doctor Elerie Taylor, conducting a preliminary analysis of an Egyptian sarcophagus discovered in the Nineveh province, northern Iraq. The hieroglyphs on the outside of the sarcophagus are definitely New Kingdom. It appears that the wife of King Menehptre died in childbirth, leaving a sole heir to the throne. A girl, called Ahmanet." She breathed an excited sigh.
When the preliminary analysis was complete, she turned to her computer. Chris sat next to her. He had been surprisingly quiet throughout this whole trip. She looked over at him and frowned. He seemed to be shaking, trembling.
"Chris?" She scooted closer to him. "Chris are you all right-" He didn't look so good, his skin pale and sweaty. She reached out to gently touch his arm.
The next thing she knew, he shot up and grabbed her throat in an iron grip.
(It's super short I know, but I thought that was a good place to end - the next one will be longer! Thanks so much for reading and for the 100+ reads! :))
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Bathed Silver in Mercury
FanfictionA determined princess, a lost sergeant, and a curious archaeologist. The princess, the sergeant, and the archaeologist. Brought together by a quest at least five-thousand years in the making... When she receives word of the location of an antiqu...
