"All the time I was held captive I had a sense of what Miriam was feeling. Our link allowed me that much. I could not see through her eyes, but I knew how she felt. I knew that she had dismissed Thomas' worries about Ana Ramirez, thinking it to be a plot to seduce her. But then she saw Ana with her children"
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"You been to Egypt, mommy?" George asked.
"Yes. It is a very interesting place?"
"I know something of it. Pyramids and mummies…"
"You will see it all one day."
"I will see it too?" Lilah asked.
Ana evaded the question, and the expression in her face of pain did not escape Miriam. There was something wrong, she thought… Why was Ana reacting that way?
She realized that Thomas was right.
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"I was suddenly free. I could fly, and I knew that I had to be quick - that there was going to be a tragedy unless I got there in time."
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"You believe me now?" Thomas asked Miriam.
"I saw Ana's face. She looked at Lilah and was sad. "
"She loves that little girl. But she will do what must be done."
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"So, this is why she had no daughter with Louis, Beverly said, "because it was less painful to sacrifice a random girl instead of her own daughter."
"Yes. She tried to cheat that time. Not that it helped."
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"This is the ritual called the Eclipse. She takes her powers from the sun. The eclipse cuts her off from that source."
"It is night, now."
"it does not matter. The power of the sun reaches her still. But The Eclipse puts a barrier around her and starves her of power."
"Let us begin then."
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"And Ana knew what they were doing."
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"So, you will use the Eclipse, will you? Well, Mr. Thomas Benchley, I will bring the full moon to you, and when it reaches you, you shall devour pretty Miss Dunn. No one will stop me from consecrating George to Ra."