Mira had spent all summer repairing the steps of the pyramid. She knew every chipped corner, so she noticed at once when the lowest step shifted overnight. In the gap was a clay tablet, small enough to slip into her pocket. It bore the seal of a pharaoh whose name had been scraped from the old maps.
The tablet told a story about a ruler who stored the grain for an entire valley. When the rains failed, his subjects came to the pyramid for food. The Pharaoh opened the granaries, then sealed himself below with the last of the seed grain. He made the temple guards promise to wake him when the river returned.
It returned the following spring. The guards were gone by then, and the door had settled too deep for anyone to lift. Centuries later, when Mira fitted the tablet into a hollow in the stair, she heard a heavy tread below. Then came a voice as dry as the stone. “Who has come for the harvest?”
Play it in Minecraft. Head to the pyramid and look for the route down to the Pharaoh’s chamber. Bring food and armour, and leave yourself room to move when he winds up for a slam.
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