How It All Goes Down
A Picnic in the Sky
- Sadie grabs the mic from Carter in order to continue narrating.
- Bast tells Sadie that they only have seconds to open the portal. They run towards the Louvre and see the giant glass pyramid in the courtyard.
- Sadie has a what? moment. Since the pyramid is made of glass, it can't be a real pyramid, right? Nope—Bast says that the shape makes the pyramid, since the whole point of any pyramid is that it's a ramp to the heavens.
- When Bast, Carter, and Sadie reach the pyramid, Isis asks (in Sadie's mind) where Sadie wishes to go. As Bast and Carter are busily battling bats, Sadie's like: I don't care. America.
- Before Sadie can get through the portal, however, the magicians chasing them show up and say not to trust the cat goddess, who has endangered them all.
- Bast looks contrite, indicating that there's a grain of truth in what they say, but Sadie wants to go after Carter, who's already entered the portal, so she does.
- Sadie wakes up in a boring conference room. She finds Carter and Bast standing by the window, looking out over Washington, D.C.
- Why D.C.? According to Bast, Sadie didn't specify where in America she wanted the portal to lead to, so they landed in the default portal for the U.S., the Washington Monument (it's the biggest obelisk in the country).
- Sadie, Carter, and Bast decide to hunker down, since no one can use that same portal just yet… but Set's minions and the magicians will eventually come after them.
- Bast conjures a picnic for them: Friskies and milk. Sadie and Carter have to remind her that they prefer people food, not cat food. Bast makes some sandwiches, chips, and soda appear.
- Sadie, Carter, and Bast talk about how powerful the monument is. These kinds of things can be used to open gates, release powerful beings, or—as Sadie points out—trap them. The way Bast was trapped in Cleopatra's Needle, perhaps?
- Bast clarifies that she wasn't actually trapped in the obelisk. Her prison was deep in the Duat, but the obelisk was the door their parents used to release her.
- Sadie asks Bast what the magician at the Louvre meant when he said Bast abandoned her post.
- Bast doesn't look happy to reply. Finally, she says that she wasn't imprisoned alone; she was locked up with a creature of chaos (which is something magicians like to do, so that the god and monster are too busy fighting each other to try to escape).
- Sadie asks whether the monster got out, and Bast replies that no, it wasn't possible: their mother's last act of magic sealed the gate.
- Before the discussion goes further, Bast goes out to scout. Carter and Sadie both think she's hiding something.
- Sadie tells Carter that their mom realized something important and wanted to act on it: that's probably what their parents were doing at Cleopatra's Needle. If releasing Bast was not the most important thing they could've done (it might have been more of a side effect), maybe their main task was unfinished—and that's what their father tried to do at the British Museum.
- Tired as she is, Sadie falls asleep right away. Her ba decides to go wandering.