The Cage

After Monica appeared with all her sass, the men explained to her just what happened. Sure enough the woman didn't believe one thing they said and called each of them pathetic and their attempts at pranking her idiotic. As Nolan is wrapping his coat over his wet pants Monica walks over to the shattered crystal and looks back angrily.

"What happened here?" She points at the remnants of the artifact and as the others are completely overwhelmed, one way or the other, they have a hard time concentrating. Fathi is saying a prayer to his lost security man, Nolan is being too embarrassed to even look at the beautiful woman and Zou is staring at her figure in the tight clothes she chose. It leaves Connor to step up and explain it one more time.

"Look. We're not bullshitting you. Skeleton in the back should be evidence enough that something sketchy went down, no?" He points at the skeleton Fathi is tending to and Monica pouts and rolls her eyes.

"Suppose so. Suppose the mummy started walking. Why is this broken here? I can tell it was in this cage. I swear if you are trying to downplay destroying this artifact with your monkey hands..."

Monkey hands?

"That's just the thing. That thing glowed red and after I shot it the mummy went down. Crystal was the key. I'm sure of it. Moreover, It borrowed that poor bastard's life to bring this mummy alive, I reckon. My leading theory on the matter."

The woman seems thoughtful and turns and walks over to the stone chest in the middle of the room and looks inside. She kneels and pulls something out from it. It looks like jewelry of some kind, not very surprising. Then she starts tinkering with it.

"What are you thinking?" Connor asks as Nolan awkwardly walks up scratching the back of his head.

The girl lines the pieces up and gets up to look at them. "This is the tomb of the oldest of the pharaoh's wives, Rhea, symbolized by Hathor, the goddess of the sky. Hm." She goes back to explore the opened tomb as Nolan looks closer. It takes him a second and then he opens his mouth:

"Aaa! So that's how you figured it out, good stuff, Monica!" The girl reacts in no way what-so-ever and Connor looks at his friend curiously.

"It's a little silly. These are some golden parts of her clothes here. Judging from some of these sizes, she had a… generous breast size. The wife pictured like this would in fact be Rhea. She was also the last of the pharaoh's wives and some think King Nuhkmut loved her the most. But wait... that means..." Nolan looks behind him at the mummy on the floor and gulps and looks back at Connor who gets up and walks over to Monica who is looking at some kind of a golden slab.

She notices him and raises her eyebrow: "Did you happen to think of covering the crystal with a coat?" The man chuckles dryly and leans on the tomb and looks at the woman in the eyes: "I had a mummy about to bite my neck. Shooting the damn thing felt like the best solution. No, I didn't think about covering it." The woman looks back at the slab and Nolan joins her and reads what's described on the slab.

"Oh look. That's a cartouche. It says angel protector. Isn't that cute?" Nolan smirks at the girl who shakes her head and turns the cartouche around and sighs frustratedly: "I do not understand. Rhea was never connected with angels. She was timid and highly religious and deemed wise. Angels are often linked with innocence and beauty. Neither describe her. Moreover she was an older woman, not a young woman deserving of this kind of nomination."

Monica's cold comment leaves the men speechless for a moment but then Connor asks: "Isn't it just a way to say she was good? People say that kind of stuff about their beloved. I think you're looking too much into that. What else is here?" He looks into the tomb as Monica starts walking along the walls and tries to find further clues. Nolan follows her and watches as she reads the hieroglyphs and follows the paintings with her finger. Nolan can't help but notice how beautiful she looks so deep in her thought.

Suddenly she gasps and takes a step back and holds a hand over her mouth. She holds the cartouche and reads it and then reads the wall again and then looks around and sees Nolan and points at the wall: "Look. The symbols. They are irregular to this pyramid. They aren't about sexual conquests or, as is common in this room, the oral sex skills of Rhea, but about a cage."

Nolan can see it as well. The more he reads the more clear it is. This room is a cage of some sort, for something. "Could it be the crystal? That was in a cage?" The girl shakes her head and points at a red flower at the edge of the mural. "This is the flower. No, this mural depicts the entire room. Angel protector... the mummy awakened in disturbance." She snaps her fingers and Nolan looks at her a little confused but follows her as she scales the tomb again and bends over to grab the sarcophagus: "Man! Help me!" She shouts and Connor, who was putting away some valuables, hurries to help her. The two manage to lift the heavy coffin out and the girl hurries right back to look into the stone box. She holds a hand over her mouth and the men join her.

At the bottom of the box, under the sarcophagus is another coffin, much more decorated and luxurious than the one Rhea rested in. In addition to this, it is small like a child's. "The angel." Monica announces and the men look at each other in confusion and intrigue.