D) You decide to walk home. After all, enough is enough. As you stroll home, you watch as the crocodiles in the Nile river peer hungrily from the surface of the water. Their bulging eyes shine in the late afternoon sun. Along your path home, you see a curious sight. You see two older scribes, in the papyrus reeds near the water's edge. You quietly creep closer to listen in to their odd conversation. "Here's my gift to Khnum, god of the Nile. He just shouldn't have opened his big mouth. He knew too much anyway.", said the big, burly scribe. "Hey, its either us or him. ", said the smaller one, "This can be our offering to Sobek, the crocodile-god as well. Ha, ha, ha." "Now all we have to do is find his partner, the one he passed the note to." As you hear these final words, a sense of panic wells up from deep inside you. It is all you can manage not to gasp out loud.
Do you?
copyright Jay D'Ambrosio 1998