Part 8 of Indiana Jones and the Ring of Ra...
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Catherine had been watching all day, and no-one had shown up. Slowly the Sun crept down from its zenith, sinking over the pyramids. Indy had spent the day deep in thought, barely speaking a word to his companion. He hadn't come to many conclusions. If the Germans didn't turn up, he'd have to come up with an original plan. He hated coming up with plans. The responsibility was awesome, especially with Catherine and her father involved.

Watching the sun, he realised something. The sun, atop of the pyramid - that was the seventh symbol, the one that had to be significant since it was underneath the cartouche. One of the pyramids must have been there when the Stargate was made! Indy was prepared to bet it was the Great Pyramid, Khufu's pride and joy. It was always said to be the earliest, and there were things about it that didn't make sense. Perhaps the Stargate had been inside, somewhere. Perhaps there was an undiscovered chamber, a room that contained a device that accompanied the Stargate.

Indy pictured the pyramid's interior in his mind. There was the narrow tunnel, three and a half feet wide and only a little higher, that ran for three hundred feet down to an unfinished burial chamber. The passageway was incredibly claustrophobic. It wasn't something you could fit a Stargate through, if you wanted to take it outside and bury it. The descending tunnel wasn't really an option, although it must have been cut first.

The ascending tunnel wasn't any more spacious. It was enormously high once you reached the grand gallery, but you still had to go through a stretch of narrow tunnel. There were two chambers higher up the pyramid - the so called Queens' Chamber and the King's Chamber. Maybe you could have fitted a Stargate in them, but you couldn't have removed it.

He sighed. It was possible that all his theories were wrong. There was no way of knowing. He had no real data, apart from Catherine's photos. It was all conjecture.

He had to go into the pyramid.

posted by Fiery Fred @ 6:43 PM