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Chapter Forty-Nine
Shu had appeared at the door of the museum. He scanned the streets, empty save for a sheet of newspaper rolling like a tumbleweed in an attempt to avoid catching fire.
It's luck soon ran out and it vanishing into a pile of grey ash, flying away to the four winds.
"Where are they?" He muttered, wringing his hands anxiously. "They should surely have been back by now."
Am-Heh was not near, he couldn't sense his presence and cloaking such power took a grand effort, one that was seen as too much to bother with.
"Something is wrong," he took to the heated air, swatting the cinders as the wind whirled them about him. "And I must find out what. The sword cannot fall into the wrong hands."
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Atum watched in disbelief as the sword's presence vanished from the map before him. No trace or slither of its power revealed it.
Stupidly, for the want of any other action, he picked up and the chart and shook it
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