h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*laugh*

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*There is a slow hiss as the sarcophagos lid begins to open*

<...>

Uh-oh

*Waits for Atum to get out*

*the lid starts to swing back. A hand clasps onto the rim, fingers flex around the side*

*Grabs her cloth and starts to wipe things down and tidy up the bed, making sure her veil is in place*

*Atum sits upright in his 'coffin'. Pushing down on it's sides Atum levers himself to stand upright, back toward the colonel. Completly naked he walks down the steps beside it and to the chair that his robes rest on*

*Once dressed Atum turns around...looking shocked at first, his expression changes to a sly smile as he says*

Now tell me, why should you find yourself uninvited in my chambers?

*Swallows and hides her face*

I am cleaning my Lord, I am a lowly slave I clean everywhere

*Atums eyebrow raises*

Far be it for me to doubt your veracity, but my chamber is never cleaned whilst I sleep. And cretainly not by someone with a complexion such as yours. Much as you try to hide it.

*Atums smile starts to widen*

<*munch munch*>

I'm new here my Lord I was not aware of your rules, I will leaves you now

*starts to back away keeping her head down*

New?

*Atum laughs*

You've left the door open to, what was, the secret passage to my chambers. Perhaps we could start again.

Who are you?

Angelique my Lord

*Looks at the door*

Oh so that's what it is, I thought it was a cupboard, you know now I come to think of it I thought I heard someone in here when I came to clean, I thought it was you so I knocked and called out but no one answered so I came in and started to work

Honest

Remove your veil Angelique. Your god commands it.

I cannot my Lord it is forbidden by my people