Leah Rooper

Experiment: Live and love as much as I can, before my particles fall away to wander in stardust.

Do you really think that Tutankhamen would have taken a chance on some pale girl with pretty eyes had you not been the priestess of Anubis?___ou did._ The words fall out of me.__hat?__ look up at him. __ou took a chance on me._ I sit up, breath heavy in my throat. __hen I was nothing but a dead, lost thing.

She wants me. And I am terrified, knowing how much I want her back.

I bet if I were pharaoh, I__ have had my tomb planned and designed by the time I was ten. I've always wanted to be five steps ahead of where I am. And my mind does it right now: I picture the king on his deathbed, and Ay delivers the awful news to me, but I'm the best embalmer in Thebes thanks to Anubis, so I'm alone in a dark room, and I cut open his soft chest, and take out a heart filled with dreams and love and sadness.

And whose heart do you want me to steal?_ The words escape me in a whisper.A small smile pricks Aten__ lips. __ing Tutankhamen.

If I wasn't discovering something, if I wasn't studying, well then, what was I doing? I know I wouldn__ be happy unless I made a difference. So what was the happiness of a moment worth against the happiness of my life?" I let out a breathy laugh and squeeze his hand. "I guess it doesn't matter now._ I stare out over camp, but a glassy sadness blurs my vision. __ave you ever wanted something so much that everything else in the world seemed so small?"He tilts his head toward me, narrowing his eyes. "I'm beginning to.