❝death is only the beginning.❞
Mara El-Masri's fascination with the long-ago world of ancient Egypt started with the stories her stepfather would tell her when she was a child. Her brother Talib El-Masri is missing, left after their mother's funera...
ACT TWO – THE TIME THAT HAS BEEN WASTED. 1928, RIYADH.
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TALIB EL-MASRI IS IN TROUBLE. He still keeps up with his teenage extracurricular activities, steal from the rich to give to the poor, only now he is in Riyadh, and he's just stolen from the wrong person. Now he has in his possession an ancient crown, at least two thousand years old, and he's being hunted. Desperate, he does the one thing he's resisted doing for nearly five years: he contacts his father for help.
WHILE VISITING HER FATHER IN LONDON, Mara El-Masri spots the empty envelope in his house, the one with her brother's name on the back, but Jamil will not let her read the letter Talib wrote, nor will he tell her the contents of the letter. She knows he's only trying to protect her, but almost half a decade has passed since she's seen her brother. What is a sister to do? So Mara, perhaps maddeningly, enlists the help of Jonathan Carnahan, a man she trusts more than anything, to find her brother in Riyadh. The search is successful, but not without its problems.
BUT THE MAN HUNTING TALIB has now set his sights on his sister, targeting her for a different reason: to sacrifice her in his mission to fulfill the final vow of Ptolemaic Egypt's forgotten ruler, a tyrannical woman erased from history who declared she would return. For his mission to succeed, for the forgotten ruler to return to this world two millennia later, the sacrifice must lie on her deathbed. He is a determined man who will stop at nothing, and so it cannot be stopped. It can only be delayed, but it is certain. Mara El-Masri will die.
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❝besides, i think you'll see so much of me the next few days you'll be tired of me.❞ ❝oh, i could never be tired of you.❞
( mara el-masri and jonathan carnahan. )
( hiii! we're gonna take a little break before act two bc i wanna get it all written/mostly written — right now i'm about 5 or 6 chapters away from finishing it — before i start posting it to weed out any major inconsistencies. in the meantime thank u for reading act one and maybe let me know what u thought of the first act, anything u think may happen in act two from this summary, and/or anything u are looking forward to in act two! personally i'd been waiting for the day i could officially start writing talib as an active, present character, and he's very quickly become one of my favorites )
