"Sure...he's gone to Egypt on a dig. We'll be lucky if he comes back at all, let alone in one piece." Sam drummed her fingers on the desk. "I knew he'd been missing doing actual archeology, but I don't think I was aware of how much he'd missed it, you know?"

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