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Fro for son of her in the main chamber to indicate which way she’d run He knelt to the floor and touched solanced at her wound and discovered blood oozing between her fingers and dripping to the floor He would track the droplets until he found her She’d have to run again, and she wasn’t sure she had it in her She could just give him the book, and that would be the end of it She could rest

But the real end would be how Second Empire put the information in the book to use The end of Sacoridia

She would have to try and hide it before the ht up with her And he would catch up She knew it

Before she took a single step, however, a strange sensation crept over her, a palpable shadow, though the passage she stood in was neither darker nor lighter The tombs were, by their very nature, a still place, but they were too still

Theover his shoulder and up into the dome He appeared to sense it, too, whatever it was

The air grew colder and a force pulled on Karigan,Moans rose and echoed through the corridors of the to of an ancient door that has lain shut for centuries and is forced open The an’s ears She wanted to burrow into a corner and hide, but she was being called Raised

Bones rustled beneath shrouds The dead scrabbled at the insides of sarcophagi trying to escape The linen-wrapped dead arose fros and queens, whole royal faaping holes where their eyes should be Their passage was a chill wind

A skeletal hand with a bejeweled ring on its finger skittered by her feet like a spider

“Bad dreahtmare in the House of Sun and Moon

She tried to hold onto the colu forced her on, her trailing hand leaving a s pushed her forward, compelled her to join the dead in their march toward the main chamber

She was faded out, a ghost herself She tried to drop the fading, but could not Soreater power had taken command of her ability

Karigan, along with the dead, spilled into the chaed and receded in waves The man spun around and around, aware of the spirits by the look of terror in his wide eyes, but there was no way to kno much he actually saw The a on the floor behind them, were very visible

Awakened, the spirits moaned Why are akened from our sleep?

The man screamed when a corpse bumped into him The scream attracted the spirits and they swarmed hi and throwing his arms over his head