As Sesostris was returning to Egypt ... he stopped at Dephnai in Pelusium, where his brother, to whom he had entrusted the rule of Egypt, invited him and his children for a visit. While he was there, his brother stacked wooden all sides of his house and set it on fire. As son as Sesostris realized what was happening, he consulted his wife, whom in fact he had brought along with him. She advised him to stretch two of their six children across the pyre to form a bridge over the flames that the rest of them could use to save themselves. That is what Sesostris did, so that, although two of his children were thus burned up completely, the rest escaped to safety with their father. ^*

Here's my idea how that conversation went down:

Sesostris: Darling, the house is on fire! I don't know how I, the pharaoh of Egypt, managed to enter a house small enough to put a tiny pyre around it, without any guards or servants to notice what the fuck was going on outside, but the house is on fire! What do we do?
Wife: Don't worry; I got this. Let's just throw Child A and B over it to make a path!
Child A&B: Wait, what??
Sesostris: Brilliant! Just what I'd expect from you, honey!
Child A: Why can't we just construct a bridge from all these tables instead?
Child B: Yeah, a human body would be really slippery to walk across.
Child A: Plus, it takes longer to burn through wood.
Sesostris: Okay sweetie, I'm ready now, let's throw them in!
Wife: Ready whenever you are!

^* Herodotus, The Histories, trans. by Andrea L. Purvis, ed. by Robert B. Strassler (New York: Anchor Books, 2009): 162.