I stifle a yawn as we make our way through the corridors of the Cairo Temple of Anubis and towards the sacred shrine at the centre.
"Please tell me all of this is nearly over?" I murmur.
"You mean the coronation stuff?"
"And being in Egypt."
"It"s nearly over," he assures me.
Matia yips happily and skips ahead of us.
"Are you telling me what I want to hear, or are you telling me the truth?"
"The truth," he responds. "I"d even swear it in front of Taia."
"Not just a random Ma"at Blessed?"
"I know you well enough to know you wouldn"t trust anyone who wasn"t your friend, and that you wouldn"t want to bother a random Ma"at Blessed with finding out whether I"m lying to you or not, especially when you know the answer to it already."
"Fair point."
"Our flight home is in a week and a ha
