76/ The cause of the drought

Nile is our home planet, for I am not of this Earth. We are children of the planetary kingdom of Hapy, the kingdom of rivers. A dozen planets circle around our invincible evening sun Atum from which all arose. Nile is the most beautiful of them all with fertile lands spanning every continent.

Anubis looked out of the window, his gaze lost in the distance.

For eternities, the Nilians, the People of the Great River, as we called ourselves, had known no hardships. Atum was merciful, the land fertile and our culture prospered. We lived by the law of the river. Every hundredth passing of our great evening sun the floods would come, and when they left, plants would grow.

But one day, the floods did not return. In their confusion, the pharaohs of the Great Houses decreed a team of researchers leave the planet and travel to Siwa. We were tasked to find out the cause of the drought.