Norman Kills an Overseer/Goodbye, Brother

Rolls of some material were put on a short table, creating a small cloud of dust. Adrian stood on a stand, looking at his plans to bring more upgrades to his father's temple, as a means of making his temple great. He was now wearing a white Egyptian crown with gold lining called a Nemes, just like his father. Two servants were fanning him, trying to keep his condition cool.

He spoke to his servants and Bob and George, the high priests, who stood nearby him. "Last night, the gods granted me a vision. I'm not merely going to restore this temple; I will make it more grand, more splendid than any other monument in upper or lower Egypt..."

Just then, Norman entered, seeing many Hebrew mice carrying sandbags, pulling rope, and doing so much work, conditions were made much worse than the conditions set by Rathoug. Norman saw one mouse try his hardest to pull a rope, but a guard whipped his back relentlessly. Others were pulling ropes and a guard was just about ready to whip them. He gripped his whip tightly. Norman watched some mice pulling ropes to pull something heavy. He looked concerned. On his way up the sandy hill, he saw another mouse fall down, and a guard whipped the bag, popping it open and causing the sand to fall out of the bag.

He tried to remember what Mousetoria told him that morning, but he began to doubt himself immediately. He saw Ellis Gehrig and Wen Dong-Mei walk by, eyes closed and carrying a bag of sand. Norman felt very concerned. Adrian ran up to Norman, wanting to tell him about his point of view of what he was now doing. "Norman! Look!" Adrian told him. "Fate has turned our little *misadventure* into a great opportunity." "Get up, old man!" bellowed Old Blind Joe, who oversaw Jemediah Fieldson on his knees, too tired and too weak to move anything at all. Adrian continued, "You know, Father would be so pleased..." "Put your back into it! Faster!" shouted Joe. Arden had a jar in her hands and wanted to warn Scotty, but he looked at them and tried to get back to work, using a nail and hammer to polish a stone pillar base. Norman was afraid, but Adrian tore his brother's eyes away. "You know, this is just the beginning. A gateway will open to an entire new city of white limestone, more dazzling than the sun. And here, a statue of statue of Hapi..." Jemediah was slow given his condition, but Joe was oblivious to this. He pulled him to the scaffold ground, yelling "I said, hurry!" "... two great column halls."

Norman heard the whip crack again, and Jemediah screamed in pain, and Norman turned, seeing all this. "Stop it!" said a voice. It was Arden, wanting to stop Joe from lashing at Jemediah like a sadist. "Arden, no!" Scotty said. "Somebody's got to stop this!" cried Arden, trying to move towards Joe to stop him, but Scotty grabbed her arms, pulling her back and saying, "There's nothing we can do." The whipping started getting worse for Jemediah, as Joe started whipping harder. Norman got off Adrian's planning cliff and looked around, then up at the scaffold where Joe was still sadistically whipping Jemediah like mad, making Jemediah scream and cry out in agony.

Well, this was just too much, even for Norman. He couldn't stand to watch the horror any longer and yelled as he ran over to the towers, "Stop! Stop it! Leave that man alone!" Hearing his voice, Adrian and the priests looked over and Adrian called to him, "Norman!" Soto was about to lay another lash on Jemediah, but Norman shoved him and sent himself and the slave driver to the edge of the scaffolding. Norman stood on the edge and kept his balance, but Joe fell to the ground and landed with a crash.

The Hebrews at the bottom all gathered around him, and Walker DeBeaumont growled as he shoved them aside, "Out of my way, out of my way! Move!" He looked down at Joe, and the guard lay limp on the ground under some broken rubble; Joe was dead!

Walker growled, "Who did this?!" The slaves wondered who killed the slave driver, and Hiram exclaimed as he pointed up, "Up there! It's him!" Everyone looked up at Norman, and the mouse prince panted heavily, realizing what he just did. He looked behind him and saw the slaves gathering around. They all backed up in alarm, but Arden and Scotty stayed in their spots and looked at him with stunned faces.

Norman looked at them for a second, then he took off and ran past them. Arden tried to stop him and called out, "Norman!" She grabbed his shoulders and he looked at her with disbelief and started running again. He ran down the sandhill and Adrian came up to him and stopped him.

"Norman, what's going on?" Adrian asked as he shook him. Norman shoved him away and started running again. "Norman!" Adrian shouted, but Norman ran down the streets over the Hebrew village and made his way to the city's gates.

"Norman!"

He heard a voice call from behind him and he looked over to see Adrian riding his chariot to him. He had Snowball and Khan stop the chariot in front of the mouse and stopped him. "Let me go!" Norman exclaimed and tried to get past him, but Adrian got out of his chariot and called to him, "No! Wait!"

Norman stopped and turned to Adrian and said to him, "You saw what happened! I just killed someone!" He walked through the gate and Adrian caught up to him. "We can take care of that!" Adrian assured him as he caught up to him and put his arm on his shoulder. "I will make it so it never happened."

Norman glared, "Nothing you can say can change what I've done!" Adrian tried to talk him out of it. He ran in front of Norman and said to him, "I am Egypt! The morning and evening star! If I say "Day is Night", it will be written, and it will be what I say you are!" He put his hands on Norman and tried to stop him, and said, "I say you are innocent!"

Norman moved his hands away from him and exclaimed, "What you say does not matter! You don't understand. I can't stay here any longer!" He shoved Adrian away and started walking again. Adrian grabbed his shoulder and exclaimed, "Norman !" Norman turned to him and yelled as he grabbed Adrian's arms, "No! All I've ever known to be true is a lie!" He sighed heavily and said in an ashamed manner, "I'm not who you think I am."

Adrian could not believe what he said and asked, "What are you talking about?" Norman looked at him and said, "Go ask the man I once called 'Father'." He made his way to the exit and Adrian called to him, "Norman?" He looked at Adrian and the older mouse prince begged, on the verge of tears, "Please..."

Norman gave his adopted brother a sad look and sighed sadly, "Goodbye, brother." He gave Adrian one last glance and took off. Adrian, with tears in his eyes, cried out to him, " Norman! NORMAN!!!" But Norman didn't listen and he ran into the desert. We walked for days through the desert, through sandstorms, through the cliffs, and over the hills.