"Guys, I've got a bad feeling about this." Jenny had finally spoken up after a long silence.
"Yeah, me too," Lee responded, "but we gotta do what we gotta do. We need to read the book to figure out exactly how to open it with two marks, just like Kimmie mentioned."
They sat in an approximate circle - or oval, particularly since Holger seemed to refuse to sit in any location that would fit a circular approximation - and leafed through the book, trying to find any and all possible information that would help them on their current quest.
"This is pointless," Biffy said. "There's nothing here..."
"There has to be!", Lee exclaimed.
"Are you sure you understood what happened correctly?", Li asked, turning to Kimmie.
The girl responded with her own question: "Are you asking me if I could understand what my own mom was saying?"
"No, no, I was just...", Li said, frantically trying to back off as he now clearly saw where this was going.
Just in time for Li, Jenny announced: "Wait - here it is! She's right - it looks like all you do is have two people with the marks open it with the two keys!"
"Two keys... wait, that's it! That's why it didn't open before - they didn't have the second one, right?", Kimmie asked.
"Yeah, they didn't!", Lee exclaimed. "Wait... but that means... Li?"
"I knew this was coming. I guess I owe it to all of you." Li sighed. "Come on, bro - let's go do this."
Lee took the key he had been carrying out of his pocket as his brother picked up the one on the ground. They walked to the pyramid's entrance and placed the keys in their slots.
"Ready?", Lee asked.
"Ready.", his brother responded, with what seemed to Lee to be his first actual smile since Lee had first seen him.
"Okay... now! Turn the key!" For the second time in his life, Lee found himself hearing that phrase - except this time he himself was speaking it. However, what happened next was not what happened last time. Indeed, what happened next truly shocked them both.
Absolutely nothing happened.
They knew that there was a slight risk of being wrong and being put into a coma by the pyramid as a result. They had both - no, all - been prepared for it. However, nothing could have prepared them for this... nothing at all.
"This is impossible," Lee said weakly.
"Something must be wrong," his brother responded. "I mean, something must be wrong with the pyramid. It couldn't normally just do nothing at all when someone tries to open it, right?"
"Maybe it knows two people are trying to open it, and maybe we're doing something wrong. Maybe it knows something bad is going to happen if it opens, and doesn't want to open. Maybe... eh, how should I know? This is all so...", Lee said quickly at first, then trailing off.
"Whoa, slow down," Biffy said. "There's gotta be a reasonable explanation for this. Come on, everyone - we need to figure this out. What could possibly have gone wrong."
"I don't know... maybe the pyramid is broken?", Jenny suggested, half-jokingly.
"Jenny, this really isn't the time!", Tina snapped, more in support of Lee than in criticism of Jenny's suggestion.
"Wait... wait... wait! That's it!", Lee exclaimed.
"What is it? What's it?", Tina asked.