CHAPTER 5
Violet’s head dropped. “Magic. Of course. That’s all it needed. I must be dreaming.” Her scrape burned, belying her assertion. “Well, here we are. So, you’re Leontios. Same as the name on my book. You do magic. That’s how you learned English in one second. You’re not Egyptian. I must have hit my head harder than I thought when the train stopped. Now I’m hallucinating. Wake up, Violet.”
She pinched herself.
It hurt.
Damn. Guess I’ll have to play along until I wake up. “Leontios, my name is Violet Warren. I’m from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and I’m here in Egypt on vacation. That’s why I was on the train.”
He shook his head again. “Too many words. These must be ideas I do not understand. What is a train?”
Violet raised both eyebrows so high, it felt like they would touch her ha
