[There's the other Book of the Dead, but that's a tangent they probably oughtn't take for the moment.]
No, they were...spells, I suppose you'd say. And the one I read--it raised a man from the dead. With all the powers of the seven plagues of Egypt and more. He--[killed my traveling companions, he used them to get his form back.
And that's where her voice cuts out, her expression drawing into something tight and pained. She knows now, in sickening detail, just what she did to those poor men; until she tried to tell the story, she hadn't connected her recent experiences to their fates. And to Beni's, horrid little Beni, alone in the dark of Hamunaptra, waiting for starvation or scarab beetles.]
This was a silly idea. [That's spoken quietly, more to herself than anything. And then, a little louder, for Leonard's sake:] The, er, the long and short of it is that we had to lay him to rest again--and we did, eventually, and narrowly escaped with our lives. I'm sorry; I'm afraid it was a better story before the fire.
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[There's the other Book of the Dead, but that's a tangent they probably oughtn't take for the moment.]
No, they were...spells, I suppose you'd say. And the one I read--it raised a man from the dead. With all the powers of the seven plagues of Egypt and more. He--[killed my traveling companions, he used them to get his form back.
And that's where her voice cuts out, her expression drawing into something tight and pained. She knows now, in sickening detail, just what she did to those poor men; until she tried to tell the story, she hadn't connected her recent experiences to their fates. And to Beni's, horrid little Beni, alone in the dark of Hamunaptra, waiting for starvation or scarab beetles.]
This was a silly idea. [That's spoken quietly, more to herself than anything. And then, a little louder, for Leonard's sake:] The, er, the long and short of it is that we had to lay him to rest again--and we did, eventually, and narrowly escaped with our lives. I'm sorry; I'm afraid it was a better story before the fire.