I am away from my warm bed and my beautiful wife when all I want is to be back with her and sleeping a dreamless sleep but our latest tomb has kept me awake more nights than any other. I have been into other pyramids that have kept me on my guard constantly and I do not have to be in this one. The charms and curses have been simple to the point of mind-numbing at points but in numbers so great that we’ve had to take double shifts just to sort through them. I’ve taken the day shift for the time that Fleur is here visiting and my counterpart takes over with the other peons like Ginny. They’ve been troupers though, working twelve-hour shifts with minimal breaks. The energy is high for this project and we’ve all been working hard to figure out what Anubis hid behind all of these enchantments. It had to have taken him months to set up all of these traps to keep us out but we will break through, I can feel it.
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Work has kept me on my toes this past week. As I predicted before, Ginny wanted to dive straight into the work once I told her about the possibility of a new tomb but permits had to be obtained and forms had to be filled out with the local officials. There was also the small matter of convincing the Muggles that they didn’t want to be involved at that dig site any longer but finally, on Friday, we were able get in there and get our hands dirty. If only curse breaking was always this simple. As a seasoned veteran from years ago, I have a few connections here in Egypt and expediting the paperwork has become the rule, rather than the exception. Gringotts, of course, appreciates that about me. It was previously unheard of for us to get onsite in less than two months. But when one goes drinking with the sons of elected officials and saved the life of one of them, one will make a few friends, who introduce you to more important people. It got the point that I had to be careful or I would have ended up a paper pusher, instead of a curse breaker.
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