44.
“Hell was that?” Andre, wide-eyed,
biting down on his bottom lip.
“Welcoming party I left for the
guards up at the tomb entrance.”
“They’re gonna find us, kill us,
and take the bones, take over the world,” Anya laments. Her face has turned
pale from anxiety.
“Not if they don’t know how to find
us,” I reassure her. But it’s like spitting in the ocean.
I enter back into the tunnel, climb
back up to the ramp and, gripping its edge with my right hand, push it back
into place. The fit is so precise, so perfectly designed, it actually seals
itself together. I have no doubt that from up inside the burial chamber, the
empty tomb will appear to be just that … an empty tomb.
But I also know that, eventually,
the bandits will uncover the secret of the tomb and uncover the secret c
