"Wait!", shouted Bastavar to the guards. They stopped abroptly and sturned back into the room. "Yes?", inquired the captain.
Bastavar looked at his daughter, she returned his look with sterness. "Tell all your men that this afternoon that the Egyptians do not work, so that they may participate in the funeral."
"It's called The Opening of the Mouth ceremony, father." Farida stated sternly and softly.
"Whatever." He turned back to the captain. "Just make sure that all your men know about this. I do not want an incident, okay, do we understand!"
"Yes.", all three said in unison. They waited for Bastavar's order for them to leave, just incase he had another order to give. "Leave!" ordered Bastavar with a wave of his hand, palm down, towards them. The captain and the two guards left. One of them feeling still sick to the stomach, but without the pain. "I guess the hag was telling the truth after all", he thought to himself.
Meanwhile....
"Henutsen, we still need to discuss who will be Isis and Nephthys this afternoon. Do you wish to be Isis and I can be Nephthys?"
"Okay, sounds good to me. What about the implements? Who's looking after attaining them?"
"Sutaijha is. Which reminds me, did anyone see her today yet? She was with me when the guards took me from my apothacary. I hope she is alright." worried Redsenet.
Just then Ankhu and Sutaijha appeared around the corner. Redsenet gave a big sigh of relief.
"Are you two ready for this afternoon?" Khumnhotep asked, with a grin, to Ankhu and Sutaijha. The two were still holding hands. To all that knew them, their friendship appeared to be becoming more since the death of Ankhu's brother, who was Sutaijha's husband.
"Yes," they both said at the same time. Then they looked at each other and giggled. They were brought back to reality with Redsenet's loud "Good!".
"So who is going to be Isis and Nephthys?", asked Sutaijha. She was born between Khumnhotep and Henutsen, making her 17 years of age.
"I am going to be Isis and Redsenet is going to be Nephthys." replied Henutsen. "We should get back to work before any of the guards catch us not working.", she said worriedly, looking around her for any signs of guards in the area.
"Good idea." said Ankhu as he let go of Sutaijha's hand. He and Khumnhotep headed off towards the construction site of the new temple, to make their quota of bricks. Henutsen followed them, to hide herself from the construction guard that had grabbed her yesterday.
"Glad to see that you are still amongst us and are not injured." Sutaijha said with relief, then headed towards the water well to fill her container, she was also a water bearier for the construction site. Redsenet thought to herself as she headed towards her apothacary, "So am I, so am I."