Part 5 of Indiana Jones and the Ring of Ra...
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They hid in the truck, behind the boxes, as it drove out of the University and into the city. When it stopped they jumped out and ran off into the crowd. Indy left his disguise behind, restoring his fedora to its rightful place on his head.

Wending their way through the busy streets, they came to a particularly dilapidated part of the city. Entering a building, climbing the stairs, Indy pushed open a door and invited Catherine to step into his room.

"What happened?!" asked Catherine, turning to Indy.

"What?" said Indy.

"Your room! It's been ransacked!"

"Ah, not exactly," replied Indy.

"Oh," said Catherine.

Indy cleared some of the papers off of the bed and sat down. Catherine looked around the room for a chair, but the bed and a table were the only furniture. Gingerly she sat beside Indy.

"You want to find my father," she said. "The only clues I have are these photographs."

She took a sheaf of papers out of her bag, and placed them on the bed between herself and Indy. Sorting through them, she removed a picture of a large stone ring.

"This was what started it all," she said. "My father uncovered it in 1928, on the Giza plateau. The excavation was run by a group of German academics, headed up by my father."

Indy looked at the photograph. The ring was unlike anything he'd ever seen. It was huge, made of some sort of dark, shiny material. 39 different symbols were engraved onto its surface.

"They're not hieroglyphics," he said.

"No," replied Catherine. "The only thing that had hieroglyphics on it was the coverstone it was buried under."

She handed him another photograph. It was a large circular coverstone, with hieroglyphics on it as well as some of the symbols that had been on the stone ring.

"Sealed for all time?" he said, looking up at Catherine.

"Father wouldn't discuss it with me," she said.

"Where is it now?" asked Indy.

"I don't know," said Catherine. "It was stored in Germany."

"Someone must have figured out what it's for," said Indy. "Your father must know. We'll just have to have a word with him..."

posted by Fiery Fred @ 9:00 PM