Notes & a partial draft of Scene 9, Ch. 5

         Late mid-morning. Carol and Paul are taking Owen for a doctor’s appointment, then lunch with Kim (near Case). You will probably mow the front yard this afternoon as Paul will be out of town until Sunday afternoon due to a wedding.

         After supper of leftovers and you are at the Beechwood Mall west parking lot sitting near Nordstrom’s, cattycornered from Legacy Mall. You haven’t worked on the scene at all today, thinking China then remembering it is Egypt. Let’s get started. > Post what you have. You have done further research and found You Tube videos of Luxor and Karnak. Lots to take in. Tomorrow, dude. – Amorella.

         As I haven’t been to Egypt this is definitely more difficult and obviously not authentic, but then I haven’t been dead either so there is obvious room for imagination. I cannot get so involved that I do not realize it is not real. But, I like to get as close as I can in my head.

Scene 9

         The three appeared standing near the west bank of what appeared to them to be a smaller River Styx. Looking further west they saw a large temple which appeared to Panagiotakis be a built to the sun-god Amun-Re.

         Takis said, “This temple appears in a replication of an area Luxor and Karnak near the Nile River. The Valley of the Pharaohs, at least some of them is further west.” While he was thinking, I do not know which is the replication, he thought, the one Here, in this Land of the Dead, or the one on Earth.

         “How is the Styx so narrow here?” as if he could not think differently.

         “The major Styx is on the other side of that rise a few miles. This is the minor Styx. No life within. No rain. Same blue sky with a trace of clouds. Same stars. Same moon, or so it appears.”

         “I don’t understand,” said Mario.

         “They created the island to the east so they would have a Nile.”

         “Like we are attempting to build a bridge. I am amazed,” he replied. We know we could go out into the river but no one ever thought to build an island out there.

         “The lush foliage is different from our Elysium,” noted Aeneas wondering how that can be as the Styx does not support life.

         With a hardy laugh, old Takis replied, “It is easy to see an illusion that is not your own.”

         “Where are the Dead?” asked Mario.

         “They don’t see us. A shaman will appear soon enough. We might as well sit.”

         They returned to the comfortable cross-legged sitting positions, saying little but glancing about from time to time hoping to see someone.  [to be continued]