The cool morning air wasn"t going to last, but I was determined to make the most of it before it was replaced by the burning heat of the sun, even in the perfect shaded spot I"d been using to grow my grapes for the past several hundred years. I reached out and touched the grapes on the closest vine. They were nearly ready, and it was a shame that I wouldn"t be around in order to properly reap the benefits of them. The flooding of the Nile had been late this year, which meant that everything was delayed as well, including the harvests that my vineyard relied on in order to make wine. Unfortunately, my trip to the afterlife was the one thing that I couldn"t delay. Whether I was ready for it or not, the time had come for me to make the journey. I balled my hands into fists at the idea. I di

