[hr][hr][center][h1][color=#00ccff]Nora Kingston[/color][/h1][img]http://68.media.tumblr.com/506955f12eff434c4e644016d5ff9d05/tumblr_inline_mm97qoYqfx1qz4rgp.gif[/img][hr][color=00ccff][b]Location[/b][/color]: Garden City - Apartment 301 Maratos Building at No.6 Walda Pasha[/center][hr][hr]	Nora felt puzzled, to say the very least. As far as she was aware, the stars had never been scientifically proven to hold any influence over a person at the time of their birth. In her classes at the college, they had been required to make estimations assuming one variable or the other. And from the math Nora did quietly in her head, it just didn't add up. The doctor assisting with the delivery of the child would exert more influence on the baby than a star would. 

	But of course, that didn't change that Neema's words matched the facts, while science failed to explain them. She bit her lip slightly as she mulled it over, before coming to an inevitable conclusion. Perhaps magic was simply science that was not yet understood. She could imagine some sort of other force of influence, perhaps a celestial force, one that doctors in the delivery room could not exert but a star could. Yet she could not imagine any scientific explanation for gods and goddesses. 

	The talk of plague on Egypt peeked Nora's interest as well. She had nearly been killed as a child from illness, tended to by an Irish nursemaid until she was well. It was the reason why she was fluent in Gaelic-- it was the preferred tongue of her nurse and she was so little that it was easy enough for her to pick it up. But with the way Neema spoke of Bastet, with the article in front, Nora couldn't help but feel like Bastet was a person and not a goddess. It was as if Neema had told her she had to find the Countess--as if Bastet was a title. 

	[color=00ccff]"How do you find the Bastet?"[/color] Nora asked, feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the information Neema had imparted on her. Yet she still had a million more questions to ask the incredibly calm and serene woman. [color=00ccff]"And how is it that a star can influence someone's birth? The mathematics don't support that conclusion...And a plague? I...I am no doctor and I have no skill with medicine. How do I stop such a thing?"[/color]