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[thecoolone]

Head scarf tucked beneath his arm but still clad in his galabayya, Bill opens the door entirely absorbed in Al-Ahram Weekly. The letters on the newsprint would be unrecognisable to most, but he's worked in Luxor for a long time and knows the language almost too well. He doesn't really seem to register anyone at the bar or even the fact he's back at the bar: he's fixated on the paper. Stumbling into the nearest table, he curses beneath his breath but sits in the closest available chair, drawing out his wand.

He uses it as a pen; it highlights the article he's reading. He sets that paper aside and takes out another one: he's got a whole stack. Next up is Cairo Live, and after that it will be the Middle East Times. He'll finish with the Egypt Daily News and that will be enough. His face falls as he reads; he finds himself highlighting more and more news stories that by themselves might be entirely insignificant but when they're read as a series... they start to fall together like pieces of a puzzle.

Fuck. These are not random acts, he thinks. No: on 12 January in Siwa, a house was set afire and all the camels' throats slit. The family who owned the property were never found. A week later at the Dakhla Oasis near Mut, a woman was found dead but no cause of death could be established. On 3 February, three eleven-year-old children were found stoned to death on the banks of the Nile near Sohag. In mid-February a family disappeared from Mallawi and another from Minya. And on and on it went: in none of these cases was motive ever established, and no perpetrators were ever caught.

"Fuck!" Bill says it out loud this time, hand wrapping unhappily round the end of his wand. "Fuck, fuck, fuck. Fuck." He flags down a passing wait-rat. "Bring me a large glass of Ogden's. In fact, make it the whole bloody bottle. They're heading straight towards Cairo."

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[young_tmriddle]

Tom hasn't spoken with Bill for quite some time, and it's with some concern he walks over to his table.

"Hullo, Bill. Everything alright there?"

[mollyprewett.livejournal.com]

Molly sees a familiar face that she hasn't seen in a while, and oblivious to the impending dOOm in her world's future, wanders over to say hello.

"Thats a lot of swearing," she observes cheerfully. When the waitrat brings the Old Ogdens, she raises an eyebrow. "And a lot of whiskey."

[missginnytonic.livejournal.com]

Ginny walks over next to Bill and smiles as she hides the blush as she remembers what she's done this past week

"Hello"

[witchy-rebel.livejournal.com]

The swearing catches Morgan's attention, and she gazes with some degree of concern at him.

[timsbooks.livejournal.com]

"Bad news?"

After reading through the thread, the mun has found it much more of a no violence type of thing to have him pop up as the eighteen year old Tim Hunter, who offered bills mom a room. then as the masked, shagged Bills sister, Hellspawn. Right?

"Who's heading towards cairo?"