CHAPTER 6
The PrizeHeh and Ipi were convinced that with the miraculous powers of the green crystal Egg of Ra they would be able to grow taller and had taken the crystal to a hiding place of their own. They cared nothing for the curse because they believed that with the magical object in their possession they would be able to counteract any force that might threaten them.
“When we have shown what it can do to ourselves,” Heh said excitedly to his companion, “there will be no end to the power we will have over people who want to benefit from it.”
“Instead of servants we will be masters!”
“Instead of masters we will be gods!”
They had taken it to a cave well hidden in the mountains west of Waset. It was just to the north of the Temple at Serui — that strange derelict temple abandoned dur
