Memphis
In reply to Wong Chi-yin (msg # 9):
She was warmly welcomed by James Gardner, the Scottish archaeologist. He complimented Chi-Yin as being the only other academic on the expedition who did not seem to be a close-minded pillock or intellectual lickspittle. "A dinnae ken how come we ur digging 'ere 'n' nae a Giza. We hud important finds in oor howk thare. Eerything is a' gaen ower a hundred times 'ere in Memphis."
Indeed they had found an undiscovered chamber there in one of the pyramids of Giza. And a sarcophagus and mummy, although those had gone missing in a very suspicious manner. Yet Dr. Clive had pulled them all out and relocated twenty miles south to Memphis, an area that had been picked clean by now. Chi-Yin had been of the same opinion as James, yet she had been asked to leave while he, a White man, had not (although Gardiner was a tenured academic).
The English psychic, Agatha Broadmoor, sipped her tea. "It is shameful Dr. Clive forced you out, my dear. It is because you are of what he calls the "weaker sex". And you are not the correct race either, according to him. But no matter."
Then she got a far-off look in her eyes and said something in a strange voice, "when the moon is dead, the Dark Pharaoh shall resurrect his bride."
Agatha then snapped out of it. "Oh! My word! Did I say something? I have these spells, you see. Everything gets so bright. Apparently I say something, but I can never remember what it is! Curious. But that is the world of the spirits."