I have just returned from a quick trip. The adventure around the corner. I'll tell you soon. You will see that it's worth it. Meanwhile, here is the first episode of the long-promised romance. Why write it? I understand the end. Some of you will understand it even earlier. Good reading (I hope).
west bank of Luxor. Winter afternoon a few years ago. The sun is warm and the light is gentle, soothing and sleepy. A man (we'll call Leonardo) and a woman (we'll call Roberta) climb up the slopes of a hill at the base of the eastern foothills of the plateau Libya: the Theban Mountain, Cima. Leonardo a few steps ahead of Roberta trudging prevented by a long skirt. Leonardo arrived almost half turns and looks at the valley that stretches a few tens of meters below. The desert ends suddenly and gives vent to an expanse of fields. The bright green of sugar cane is the predominant brown soil still moist when planted. The air is quite clear and the eye gets over the Nile, Luxor and go up to the mountains of the Eastern Desert. It 's really a week that puts the will to live. The coolness of the past few days appears to have yielded a ceasefire.
Leonardo looks Roberta stumbling once again on the verge of her skirt and asks why quell'abbigliamento uncomfortable and do not give up a little 'out of fashion. 'Glad you'. Robert looks up and smiles. 'Not bad'. Leonardo thinks. Still not entirely sure if Robert really likes it or not. It 's so. There are women that sometimes you like and sometimes not. But for this kind of reasoning is no time. Now we need to find the grave of interest to Roberta. Leonardo has promised him. There should be evidence of a reuse of a Coptic hermit. Not that Leonardo cares anything about the Copts. And 'that the days after the excavation are also involved in some way. Leonardo resumed the climb.
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| "The desert ends suddenly and gives vent to an expanse of fields ..." |
Roberta realized that Leonardo was considering. Dwelt too long on the long skirt waiting to get up. 'Here it is. It will still be asked why I walk around like that. What a break ... Why do not you own business? I wonder if he has never heard of all the heavy side. I do. I find him in front of me every time I wake up in the morning. It 's almost a blessing that no other hotel that mirrors those above the drawer. Too small to reflect the whole figure. But look what I'm thinking ... We hope to arrive early. These shoes are not suitable for the slopes of sand and stones. I might have led to more comfortable '.
"This should be" screaming Leonardo indicating a hole in the ground.
"That one? But it is only a hole. " Roberta stopping answers. Watch and find that Leonardo is not so bad. The courtship just mentioned that he did in the weeks before the start was a bit 'awkward, but not at all unpleasant. Flattering indeed. Now then, with that beard of a few days, has also taken a bit 'of the charm of the unfortunate' ... and I love the unfortunate. Especially if you lead a mission excavation '.
"Well. If you come up here you realize that the hole is in the ceiling of a tomb which still seems full of debris. "
"Then can not be that. The publication makes it clear that is accessible, and decorated with Coptic graffiti on the walls. " Robert Leonardo reaches the edge of the hole that appears to be just a hole.
"Okay. I'm going to check, even if it seems to me full of debris. "
" I'm coming. "
" Where you going with that skirt and those shoes? "Looks to hold back a laugh.
"But it's not even a drop of one meter." 'I've seen. I've seen. This time it was clear. He looked at her tits. I have the right look. Weighed. And here I have nothing to fear. I just know he likes me.. '
"Wait here. If it is interesting to call you. "And Leonard jumps in the hole, crouches and disappears across the board. 'What kind of macho. He works and I wait. I could go too smoothly. But perhaps because he did not want to hurt me. He takes care of me. Wretched-looking, a gentleman of spirit. Not bad '.
"There's nothing here. Indeed, no ... "the voice of Leonardo comes from a shadowy underground.
"So?"
"It 's full of debris. They seem all Roman or Coptic. "
Leonardo forgot to bring a flashlight. He closes his eyes and opens them to get them used to the gloom. Piles of debris everywhere. It goes further back, taken by a growing curiosity. Forward groping, being careful where you put your feet. Is neither the first nor the last to fall into a pit and fracture something.
"So?" Roberta from outside the repeats. His voice is always more distant.
"Nothing. Nothing. I'll be right back, "answered Leonardo, meanwhile makes a few more cautious step forward. And here he is forced to stop. The faint light that now comes from the hole clears a pile of debris cluttering the entire space to the ceiling. The sound of loose gravel behind him when he stops just now decided to go back. An animal? We turn now to the hole farther than ten yards.
"Robert?" No answer. The sound is repeated. He comes from a dark corner between Leonardo and the hole. 'And now?'.
"Robert?" No answer. No noise. 'That will happen?'. You might as well regain the exit. 'And what animal might that be? A dog? A fox? They are more afraid of us that we need them. If I hold against the opposite wall I should be able to exit without disturbing it. Just what we needed to be bitten ... '
Step by step, listening, Leonardo tries to regain the exit. Reaches the pile of debris in the hole and called again.
"Robert?" No answer. Behind him, the sound of debris stirred repeats. Close this time. It is repeated again. Closer and closer. Leonardo makes a fist, turns slowly and is located in front of Roberta! 'Damn!'
"And what are you doing here?" Robert laughs.
"I I was tired of waiting and I was curious ... "Roberta is another step, stumbles when he raised his head and his face is very close to that of Leonardo.
"Since there is nothing?" Says Leonardo. Immediately changes his mind, though. Something is there. Roberta's eyes tell him that now stare from a distance of a few tens of centimeters.
"There are only ..." Leonardo will not finish the sentence because, before it can be something compelling in the shooting. Roberta takes her by the shoulders and his face close to hers. Roberta bend your head slightly to the right "No. Do not ... "but then left to achieve. Their lips seek, and are joined.
Roberta and Leonardo kissing. In the tomb. Among the pieces. Surrounded by a faint odor of ammonia.
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