sun was giving just enoughheat o make everything pleasantly warm. I sat up in bed and streched catily. The sun wasstreaming through my window, streching it’s rays to all the corners of my room. I got out of mybed an padded sleepily towards my window. Suddenly a loud banging came from my door, Iwhipped around and saw Raja, my servant, standing there breathless.“Moses!” He shouted. “Pharoh wants you in his court now! You’re late for morningworship of the gods again. Hurry up and get down there!” With that said he turned around andrushed back to his work.I scrambele to get dressed and ran down to Pharoh’s court. You see I’m not evenPharoh’s son, I was adopted by his daughter when I was about three months old. She had foundme floating in the river in a basket. When I was found she hired a young woman who had recentlyhad a baby to nurse me. Then when I became old enough to be weaned she adopted me. The onlything is that since I’m not an Egyptian and not really his grandson, Pharoh despises me. I’malways getting in trouble and getting passed over in favor of my brother who is Pharohs fullgrandson. I got to Pharoh’s courts just in time to hear them say the final prayer, I ran quickly inand kneeled down at the edge of the room to wait for Pharoh to call on me so I could recieve mypunishment.This was several years ago. Right now I’m fleeing from Egypt and from Pharoh. Pharohwants to kill me because I killed an Egyptian one day when I saw him beating a Hebrew. So rightnow I’m walking to Midian. I’ve been walking all day long and the sun is burning hot, I feel asthough my skin is gooing to just catch on fire and burn right off me. I finally come to the top of ahuge hill that I have been climbing forever and see a few women argueing with a bunch ofshepards. I walk down closer to them and listen to the conversation.“We were hear first!” Says the...
