Abu Simbel was an astounding sight to everyone in the truck, everyone save Safa.

She’d tried hard not to come back to this part of the world very often over the past decades since her return from the “other side”, and had mainly succeeded, save for a small handful of visits. At various times, Safa’s research led her to spells that might help her pass on permanently from the realm of the living, or might extend her existence even more. Depending on her mood in any given year, she performed one kind of rite or the other. Ultimately, she’d tried so many times to do so many contradictory things that, well, Safa truly had no idea whether any of the attempts were working. She had completely given up on deciphering any more ancient scrolls since her last investigations five or six yea...

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