A/N - well, the plot bunnies attacked and wouldn't let me alone until I wrote this, so here goes. Sorry if it's short ... hopefully you'll enjoy this :)
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Ardeth caught a glimpse of the tattoo on the wrist of the man standing next to him, and had to regain his composure, though that took only a fraction of a second. He remembered the story he had been told about the prophecy. His father had only told him the story once – it was a part of the story about the Scorpion King. Every Medjai knew the story about the Scorpion King, and the man who could kill him could command his armies, but his father had also told him that there was a man destined to do so and would, according to a prophecy, have a specific tatoo on his wrist, also that he would be a Medjai, even though he was not born as one. Of course, his father had told him that it was an ancient prophecy, that it had yet to come to pass – if there was any truth in the story about the prophecy being made at all – and he doubted that it ever would come to pass, since it had been so long since the prophecy had supposedly been made, but as Ardeth took another brief look at the tattoo, he wondered if the story he remembered was actually true.
… and the Medjai warrior will see the sacred mark and ask
"If I were to say to you 'I am a stranger from the east seeking that which was lost …" he had to know if the prophecy was referring to here and now, and if the prophecy was coming to pass.
And the one bearing the sacred mark will reply
"Then I would reply 'I am a stranger traveling from the west, it is I whom you seek' how did …"
The Medjai warrior will know by this that the bearer of the sacred mark is a fellow Medjai and is the one destined to defeat the Scorpion King and send his armies to the underworld.
"Then it is true, you have the sacred mark."
"That? No, that I got slapped on me when I was at an orphanage in Cairo