Chapter 3: Clay Maiden
"This is the tunnel," Sekhmet opened the hole in the earth fully. I knew this country, but it had changed. The people of my past didn't bury priestesses in the earth, or at least I thought.
"Are you sure there's even a priestesses in here?" I looked up at the letters above the doorway, which looked like those that marked a tomb, but they read different. "We rest thee in death's vale," not a traditional "We give thee to peace in the earth." No, they were right.
"What?" Cale looked at me impatiently. "This tool is telling us she's in here."
"It's a strange tomb," I mused, then snapped forward. "Yes, there is a priestess in there, no doubt, of some sort, for the markings are strange."
Proceeding into the earth cavern assaulted my senses. I hadn't seen things like these for centuries. The clay pots of incense lingered through out the niches in the tunnel. Statues of birds, trees, and flowers decorated various places. "The incense smells sweet," Cale mused. "Seems more like this maiden was buried days ago."
I froze and sniffed. I paled. The incense hadn't been burned. It shouldn't have been fresh, but ashes remaining after it had been completely burnt when the family and priest left the tomb, leaving the dead. This incense, this place, wasn't a tomb, but what I wasn't certain what is could be.
"She's in here," Sekhmet pried at a large, wooden door until it was forced open enough so we could enter. The body should be wrapped up in linen, placed carefully inside a wooden box, decorated with scenes of the person's life. I peered into the chamber. A torch illuminated a clay burial casket that was in the shape of a sleeping maiden.
"We've found her," I barely breathed. It was our clay maiden. This wasn't a dead priestess, but a living one, entombed with the dead, waiting to be resurrected for such a purpose as this.
"Well, clay beauty, you're coming back with us so we can open you up," Cale laughed, yelling at Sekhmet to help him with the large clay casket.
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"This is the tunnel," Sekhmet opened the hole in the earth fully. I knew this country, but it had changed. The people of my past didn't bury priestesses in the earth, or at least I thought.
"Are you sure there's even a priestesses in here?" I looked up at the letters above the doorway, which looked like those that marked a tomb, but they read different. "We rest thee in death's vale," not a traditional "We give thee to peace in the earth." No, they were right.
"What?" Cale looked at me impatiently. "This tool is telling us she's in here."
"It's a strange tomb," I mused, then snapped forward. "Yes, there is a priestess in there, no doubt, of some sort, for the markings are strange."
Proceeding into the earth cavern assaulted my senses. I hadn't seen things like these for centuries. The clay pots of incense lingered through out the niches in the tunnel. Statues of birds, trees, and flowers decorated various places. "The incense smells sweet," Cale mused. "Seems more like this maiden was buried days ago."
I froze and sniffed. I paled. The incense hadn't been burned. It shouldn't have been fresh, but ashes remaining after it had been completely burnt when the family and priest left the tomb, leaving the dead. This incense, this place, wasn't a tomb, but what I wasn't certain what is could be.
"She's in here," Sekhmet pried at a large, wooden door until it was forced open enough so we could enter. The body should be wrapped up in linen, placed carefully inside a wooden box, decorated with scenes of the person's life. I peered into the chamber. A torch illuminated a clay burial casket that was in the shape of a sleeping maiden.
"We've found her," I barely breathed. It was our clay maiden. This wasn't a dead priestess, but a living one, entombed with the dead, waiting to be resurrected for such a purpose as this.
"Well, clay beauty, you're coming back with us so we can open you up," Cale laughed, yelling at Sekhmet to help him with the large clay casket.
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