her body was mummified, her vital organs removed and placed in sacred canopic jars.
the book of the living contained sacred incantations that would send the evil dead on a journey into the dark underworld.
the slaves were killed.
and the soldiers who killed them were also slain, so that no unholy person should ever know the exact location of the burial site.
but there was another book, the book of the dead, which was never to be opened, never to be read, for it contained the incantations that could bring a dead body back to life a most unholy thing.
it was hidden at hamunaptra, city of the dead, inside the statue of anubis, so that no such sacrilege might ever disgrace egypt.
but for my love of anck-su-namun i was willing to defy the gods.
anck-su-namun's vital organs were still fresh, so a human sacrifice would not need be made.
anck-su-namun soul had come back from the dead! now all that was needed, was to return her organs to their rightful place within her body.
my priests were condemned to be mummified alive.
as for me, i was condemned to endure the hom-dai. the worst of all ancient curses. one so horrible, it had never before been bestowed.
by eating the sacred scarabs, i would be cursed to stay alive forever. and by eating me, they were cursed just the same.
i was to remain sealed inside my sarcophagus, the undead for all of eternity.
they would never allow me to be released. for i would arise a walking disease, a plague upon mankind, an unholy flesh-eater, with the strength of ages, power over the sands, and the glory of invincibility.
and if i could raise my beloved anck- su-namun from her place in hell, together, we would be an unstoppable infection upon this world. the apocalypse. the end.
anck-su-namun?
kadeesh pharos anck-su-namun!
anck-su-namuuuuun!!!!
the language of the slaves.
i may have use for you. and the rewards will be great.
where are the other sacred jars?
anck-su-namuuuuun!!!!
you saved me from the undead. for this, i shall make you immortal.
koontash dai na.
keetah mi pharos, aja nilo, isirlan.
pared oos.
kill them! kill them all! and bring me the book of the living!
with your death, my love and i will be invincible!