Page 23 of Sett and his King
But as soon as I stepped into the small, stuffy vault it was empty.
"Where is it?"
Drew walked in right after me and glared at me.
"Where is what?" he asked.
"The scarab. Everything."
This place was supposed to hold some powerful magic, kept safe from greedy hands until the end of time.
"You mean it's not here?" he spun around, looking at every corner but there was no use.
The vault was empty.
The scarab was missing.
The protections I'd built had failed me yet again.
Was it me? Was it my fault Horus wasn't dead? Had my magic failed me back then too? Had he found out where I hid the scarab? Was it in his possession?
No, it couldn't be.
If he had his scarab he'd have come to his full power and nothing…nothing would be the same.
"I guess archaeologists found this place? Or tomb raiders."
I shook my head. "No one was supposed to find this. I usedsomepotent magic to conceal it."
"So maybe it was another magical creature. Another god?"
I growled and stormed out of the vault. My legs were on fire. My whole body burned with fury.
"Where are you going? What are you doing?"
I stopped on my tracks and growled again. This time the ground, the walls, the ceiling shook. Everything around me made of sand trembled under my power.
Mypower…
"One moment," I said and got down on my knees, calling forth the magic of sand.
A cloud rose around us. It sizzled with magic and memory and the thicker it got, the clearer I could see. Sand carried the signatures of everyone who'd crossed its path both future and past.
The sand in here had no memory. No one but me all those years ago.
Except...
There it was. A signature. It was otherworldly and dark.
"An eldritch witch. Whoever took the scarab was a witch with an affinity for the eldritch dimension."
The sand cloud dropped to the ground and dissipated instantaneously.
Drew stared at me. "Th-that would make sense. If they used an eldritch sacrifice to infiltrate the tomb. Eldritch creatures aren't affected by magic the same way."
I nodded and rose to my feet.
There was some relief in the realization I hadn't screwed up again. Eldritch magic was rare and it didn't play by the same rules. I could never have predicted that.
