"The kind I don't care to talk about," Bakura returned, and having spoken with Anton enough times, understood that the man would not take that as an insult but a simple statement of fact. Bakura hadn't shared the details with many people before, and he certainly held that pain too fresh to him at the moment to broach the topic.

But then he took the opportunity to redirect the conversation to something that he found curious. "Still, you recognized me as Egyptian from the moment I spoke a word of it, in your first public address. That, and knowing hieroglyphics? What is Egypt to you?"