Keep your eye on the sky...

2. Keep your eye to the sky, you never know what will be up there…

3. Alice: *sigh* My last baby is growing up…
Onyx: I thought you didn’t want anymore kids.
Alice: I don’t; but it’s still a moment when I realize there will be no more diapers. It’s
sort of sad.

4. Onyx: There’s always grandkids, one of us has to be the heir don’t we?
Alice: Yes, that’s true. I just hope your father has that kind of patience to wait.
We still haven’t decided who should be the heir.

5. Carbon: At last! I can finally play better music. I mean aside from taking my
Photographer’s Eye to its heights of creativity. I can do both. All I need is a
good camera to take those photos with. Maybe if I’m good mommy and daddy
will get me one on their vacation.

6. As Coal promised, once Carbon was a child he would take his wife to Egypt. She had
wanted to visit the pyramids and the temple of the queen. Coal was also eager to find
some new seeds to plant and fish to catch in the Nile River, like those Nile River
Crocodiles he had heard about on TV.

7. Alice went to the market to do some shopping and to try some falafel and shawarma.
She wanted to pick up something for Carbon’s birthday as well as learn some new
recipes to make at home. Coal meanwhile wanted to go adventuring. He had found an
ad on the notice board for MorcuCorp that was looking for some help. He met with his
contact and his adventure began.

8. Coal didn’t think that this little job for MorcuCorp would end up taking seven of the nine days he had in
Egypt though. He found more notes waiting for him on the board after he finished retrieving something from
the Tomb of Discovery for them, it had become an entire job. Although he did manage to find some of the rare
Flame Fruit he had read about on this “job” so that was partly worth all the trouble he figured. Flame Fruits
in Barnacle Bay were never imported so the demand for them would be high and would make him some good
money once they were ripe.

9. His final job for MorcuCorp involved hunting the Relic of Life; a highly sought after
artifact that several parties were interested in getting their hands on. Coal was merely
searching the sarcophagi for them and did not expect to be attacked!

10. Coal was attacked by a mummy who was known as Shebi, a priestess who used dark
magic to enslave the pharaoh’s son. She suffered the Hamdai; a ritual that involved her
being mummified alive and eaten by scarab beetles. It was a horrible ritualistic
punishment meant to make her soul suffer for eternity in the Afterlife. Thankfully, she
did not inflict her curse upon Coal…

11. When Alice heard about Coal being attacked by a mummy; she insisted that they spend the last
two days together and always in each other’s sights. That meant fishing where they could be near
each other. She did manage to get Carbon an expensive Hikon Gladiator camera while there, she
told him that he had to take really good care of it. Carbon was delighted to get what he asked for,
his birthday was going to be great after all.

12. Alice: Now remember Carby; this camera is very expensive so don’t treat it like a toy. I
mean no showing it off at school or bragging about it to the other kids. I don’t want to hear
that it was stolen because of that.
Carbon: I won’t mommy; I promise. I’ll take really, really, REALLY good care of it.

13. Obsidian: What was that…I thought I saw something shimmering…am I going
crazy?

14. Obsidian: There’s a green thing above my head! Where the hell did that come
from?!

15. Obsidian: Now it’s yellow and orange too! And is that blue? What the hell is
going on here?

16. Obsidian: Oh bollocks…

17. Obsidian: What is happening!? Why is no one running out to help me? Stalker-
Ratzi dude help me! Don’t just stand there!!
Stalker-Ratzi Dude: Aww I thought this house would have more going on.
What will I sell to the Tidal Tribune now?

18. Obsidian: This beam…is it blocking anyone else from noticing what’s going on?
I can’t hear anything outside the roar and whooshing of this beam…maybe
they can’t see me either.

19. Obsidian: Onyx should know what’s happening! He is my twin, he should be
feeling my fear right about now. Why isn’t he reacting?

20. Celeste: Woo! Birthday! Nothing else is happening tonight so yay me!
Basalt: Yay big sissy! Get old and get out. I want my own room.
Celeste: Yeah right twip; I’m not going to leave right away.
Basalt: Damn.
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