How It All Goes Down
I Deliver a Love Note
- Sadie says that she's glad Carter narrated the last bit—both because she was unconscious for some of it, and because she can't talk about what Bast did without falling apart.
- Amos says that he was a fool to go after Set. He had no idea how powerful Set had become. According to him, Set's spirit is tied to the red pyramid. It's his host in this world, instead of a mortal host.
- Sadie asks whether Amos saw her father. He says no, but he heard that the demons were planning to obliterate Osiris with the storm's power on Set's birthday. Perhaps the idea is to bury Osiris so deep within the Duat that he'll never reemerge.
- Carter and Sadie ask how Amos escaped, and he admits that it was too easy. He shouldn't have been able to get out without Set noticing or stopping him. Clearly, he's a part of Set's plan—but he's not sure what or how.
- Amos has summoned his boat to bring everyone to safety, and currently they're in White Sands, New Mexico.
- Sadie thinks back to her attempt to communicate with Nephthys. The goddess's voice had been faint, but she had said she'd find a way to get a message to Sadie.
- Then Carter tells her what happened with Bast, and Sadie begins to cry. She's lost so much already in this struggle, and now Bast is gone too?
- While napping, Sadie's ba takes a little trip: she retains her human form but grows really, really tall, so that she can see Texas as well as the red glow of Set's pyramid.
- Sadie feels enormous compared to the world, and a voice tells her that this is how gods see things.
- Sadie looks around until she notices the figure of a man in the dunes. He stands up and is actually taller than she is. Sadie correctly IDs him as Geb, and she remembers that she has a note for him. She pulls out the envelope from Nut and hands it to him.
- Fireworks burst from the letter, forming a picture of Nut's face.
- Geb thanks Sadie and says that she may ask a favor of him. She immediately asks him to save her father. He compliments her on her loyalty but says that he can't do it; his fate is tied to that of Osiris.
- Next Sadie asks Geb to destroy Set's pyramid in an earthquake. He also can't do that: Set is his child, too, and he doesn't interfere in the affairs of his children.
- Instead, Geb offers Sadie some advice: go to the place of the crosses. It's nearby.
- Geb says that he sympathizes with Sadie: she's lost family, and so has he. But he won't change his decision, even though it cost him his wife. He loves all of his children, even Set.
- Sadie is surprised to hear this, but Geb says that Set is more than he appears. He tells her to think about that, and to be careful. She'll find danger at the place of crosses, but she'll also find what she needs.
- Geb sinks back into the earth, and Sadie's ba returns to her body.