Anubis changed back to a boy and glared at the dirty little girl. “I don’t got fleas! You got fleas!” His Mama made him take baths all the time and that kept the fleas away. She better not say he had fleas again.
After he vented his outrage at the dirty little girl’s comment, Isis’ words finally sunk in. The girl was called ‘Bast’. And she wanted to race. But she didn’t want to race him when he was a jackal. She probably knew he would beat her. He was very fast with four legs. He tried to race his adopted brother once, but Heru always cheated by flying. Flying wasn’t running no matter what the stupid hawk said.
But he still didn’t know why the dirty little girl was with his Mama. She didn’t look like anything special. Just another mortal girl. She did make him feel a tiny tingle when he looked at her, though. He wondered what that was.
“What’s she doing here, Mama? Is she going to work in the temple? I can run faster than you with just two legs.”