Chapter 23 Golden Gates

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"..and who knows how long it's been here. Alex told me it used to belong to a king. 'Before that?' I would always ask curiously. That's a trait he never lost. Alex never tired of someone's curiousity. I think a long time ago he used to take care of children. his pacience is outstanding. What do you think Erin?"

At the sound of my name I opened one sleepy eye. I remained motionless and waited for Rionar to say something else. He didn't.

For a couple minuets he walked through the long pitch black mine shaft.

"I should have guessed you went to sleep a while ago." He sighed and started to slow down. "An entire story wasted."

After that, Rionar came to a hault.

He turned his head around and craddled my neck in his teeth softly. He picked me up and set me on the ground carefully.

I resisted all notion to move as I listened to his footsteeps trail away from me.

"Tomb," he said loudly as if adressing it.

From where I was his voice seemed to echo. It was definitly a large area. So that's how Alex is doing it. Clever. Very clever to hide a magnificent tomb at the end of a twisting mine shaft.

"Open."

A loud grumbling of a rock filled the entire tunel with a sound alike an earthquake.

At this my eyes slowly opened just to experience the tomb for a few seconds. Even under my own order, I couldn't help but to gasp.

My eyes widened at the first mound of gold and wider at the next four. The tomb wasn't a single room; it was an entire place.

Rionar immediatly turned toward me and snarled. "Don't look at it!"

He rushed toward me, but I could not avert my eyes from the piles an piles of- Oh no. Everything suddenly went dark.


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