Author: Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Genre: Fiction
Ranofer works with the goldsmiths, cleaning up for them and helping them. While doing his duties he notices that one of the apprentices of Rekh, a master goldsmith, is not doing so well with his assigned job so Ranofer goes and tells him how to make the bowl the apprentice was making better. He knows how to make the bowl better because he watched his father every day work with gold. When the apprentice takes Ranofer's advice he realizes that Ranofer's advice is helpful. Rekh watched Ranofer help him and asked him to make a leaf. When he did and it was well made Rekh told him to make 49 more because the queen wanted a necklace with leaves on it. Ranofer was very happy with his assignment and went straight to work. Meanwhile his half-brother Gebu has been stealing gold with the help of Ibni, the Babylonian, and Ranofer without him knowing. Ibni gave a wineskin to Ranofer each day to give to his half-brother, and inside each wineskin was a small piece of gold. When Ranofer figured out that he was helping with stealing he did not take the next wineskin to his brother. His brother was angry and threatened to make him work at his stone-cutting shop instead of the gold shop. Ranofer must now help his brother to steal, or it will be the end of him.
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