He got dressed in as many layers of clothes as he could and made his way to the river Thames. It was freezing outside; London was white with snow, and a misty fog drifted up the Thames giving it a mystical quality. Rishaan had never been anywhere so cold. At the river embankment was Cleopatra’s needle, an obelisk from Alexandria in Egypt. The sergeant major was right; Egypt had come to him. It stood proudly at almost 67 feet tall; the top was difficult to see in the mist. The Thames had frozen over and Rishaan could not see the other side through the cold haze. Luckily, there was no wind; otherwise, he would not have been able to stay long.
Behind the monument, some steps led down to the river. Although Rishaan was on time, the man had not yet arrived, and after a while, Rishaan began to
