The Egyptian Princess
Begin: I was finishing some task involving the mummy of an Egyptian princess. It was in poor condition, and, as I moved it, a piece came off at the head end. As I tried patting it back into place, the mummy started going through a metamorphosis. The body within the wrapping began to reconstitute itself and come alive.
Within a few minutes, the woman was functional and broke from the rotted wrappings (I was a shade concerned, wondering how to explain the destruction of a valuable mummy). Soon she was able to get to her feet with my help. Her complexion was gray and shrunken, but improved rapidly. Her cloths, a long close fitting dress in colored geometric patterns, was as gray and faded as the mummy wrappings, but improved in pace with her body, finally becoming bright and new looking. Even before she was able to get up she was able to talk, and did so in English. I asked her how she could talk in English instead of Egyptian, but she ignored the question.
She did not want to stay put, and I walked with her out of the building we were in. It was a bright sunny day, and before us was a large rose garden, surrounded by a park. We were among a number of people, and using them as a distraction, she gave me the slip. I looked for her in the garden, and in a couple of rooms near the one we had come out of, but people seemed always in my way, as though deliberately. Finally, I decided there should be a better way to find her. I closed my eyes and imagined a beam coming out from myself and swept it around like radar, trying to feel her through it. I quickly determined the direction she was in, but not the distance.
I found her walking down a small stream with another woman, looking so bright and fresh I almost didn't recognizer her. She and the other woman sat down on a rock, and I confronted her there. She looked at me indifferently, but I then realized she was drawing all her energy through me, not draining it from me, but using me as a pipeline.
I told her, "Well, it power is what you are after, I can get you plenty". Closing my eyes, I felt out this stream of energy she was drawing, opened it wide, and reversed it, pulling her through me and casting her into the sun. She gave a small shriek and disintegrated from overload. I opened my eyes and she was gone from the rock.
I felt deep regret at having done this, especially knowing it would have been so interesting to learn more about her, but now I had destroyed her forever. She had felt to me too dangerous to try to deal with, had been rapidly growing stronger, and had certainly not been friendly toward me. A little politeness would have gone a long way.
End.