his gait dictated, just enough so his fingers brushed the soft, pale skin on the back of Ina's right hand.

She shivered pleasantly, warmth blossoming around her neck.

Nearing the facade, Frankie took a last glance over her shoulder at the truck, where the two guards had slung their  submachineguns over their shoulders and were now leaning on the hood chatting away with the driver. She hoped they wouldn't find any reason to use those guns that night.

The adventurers soon found themselves passing beneath bas-relief images of Ramesses worshiping before the falcon-headed sun god Ra, while a carving of a troupe of baboons danced above them. The first hall in the temple was about sixty feet long and forty feet wide, lined with four massive stone columns along each side, thirty feet high...

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