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  Chi watched Lawrence  pick it up. Gotta look ones best in the afterlife.

  He was sitting atop the head of a startlingly lifelike sculpture of the former pharaoh. Laylas mind told Lawrence  that this sculpture represented the pharaohs ka, his soul, and it would watch over the tomb-- the real pharaoh lay mummified behind it. Inside the limestone sarcophagus would be nested wooden coffins; inside the smallest one of them: the embalmed pharaoh.

  Watch out, Chi said. Lawrence  hadnt even realized she was resting her hands on a small wooden chest. That contains the pharaohs entrails.

  Lawrence  jerked away and slid the star shot out from her dress. When she picked it up, its shaft warmed her fingers. Is this really going to work?

  If you pay attention and do as I say, Chi said. Now, the soul resides directly in the center of your being. To reach it, you must draw the blade precisely down the middle of your ches