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Chapter 3

Drahteus was troubled by this dream. He convinced his mother to stay another
night and soon found his dreamself back at the pyramid of the lost Ages:

This time his ghostly form was pulled to the pyramid itself where he saw a
preparation chamber connected to the burial room. Upon the floor was a giant
sigil of a triangle set in the middle of a double circle which was surrounded
by nine runes he recognized as being of death, decay and ressurrection. He
again saw the King he'd seen before. Now clothed in burial shrouds. The same
men from the vision before were chanting and preparing him for something.

The King again noticed the ghostly presence with him in the room. He looked
at him and said "Watch and remember." and suddenly there was a loud crash and
yelling. The King and his men walked out of the chamber and down to the base
of the pyramid with Drahteus' form pulled along with them. Descending upon the
pyramid was countless savages from the jungle. Drahteus recognised that with
them were many of the Priests he'd seen in the Temples the day before.

As the royal guard and the King were pushed back into Pyramid the King uttered
many arcane words, raising his dead soldiers to undeath to serve him further.
Drahteus recognised this necromancy from his studies in his youth. The King
fought valiantly but in the end was driven back into the burial chamber. He
turned to Drahteus and again spoke: "We were an hour from glory. Our reign was
to be eternal." Then an arrow struck the King in the chest. Then another. Then
one more. As he slid down the altar, staining the floor with his blood many
more ran into the chamber and stabbed at him with their swords.

As Drahteus' form was pulled upward toward the sky he heard the chants: "He is
not a god! Sa-het-rhual is dead! Sa-het-rhual is dead!".

Drahteus woke to his mother shaking him as he thrashed screaming in the night.