Phantom Papyrus Novels & Stories

My gut feeling kept telling me this was important, this Blood Moon Ritual that Andre spoke about, and not just because of the obvious reasons…there was a deeper meaning to it all. “Got it!” Daphne’s voice broke me out of my trance and both Emma and I hunkered down next to her, to look inside the contents of the first drawer. “Wait…what’s this?” We pulled out the large, thick file like thing that was wrapped in a piece of cloth that looked old enough to have been Cleopatra’s floor rag. But when we took it off with care, there was a hard-bound file with several thick papers inside that appeared to be the handmade kind.

He packed them up, and made his way towards the refrigerator aisles hoping to find water. On his way there he heard something, he froze and Listened. Then he was sure. It was heavy breathing. The Pales were frightening, the biggest stood eight feet tall and were a formidable entity. They had claws to tear their prey apart like a lioness tearing into a meal. A Pale’s arms hung very long and their legs were lengthy as well.

The thought of it alone made Gerald shudder. His train of thought was cut short when he heard Master Ghost’s surprised voice saying, “Master, look! There’s a codex here!” Turning to look at Master Ghost—who had the parchment in hand—Gerald then took it for himself to have a look at its contents. Though many of its pages were already coming loose due to how old it was, its contents were still pretty readable. On the first page, Gerald was greeted by the image of a strange plant… Following that, there were two maps and some written descriptions… From the looks of it, Daryl had spent a considerable amount of time trying to study all this since most of the words were marked.

"For the museum." "Ah." The woman's expression brightened with recognition. "You must be from the Metropolitan Museum of Ancient Arts. We get several of your researchers in here. Dr. Hassan was just asking about similar materials last month." Shantali's pulse quickened. "Dr. Hassan?" "Egyptologist on your staff, I believe. Lovely woman, very thorough in her research. She was particularly interested in the Ka-Wadjet prophecies." The librarian pulled up a catalog entry. "Here we are—I can get you started with Blackwood's *Ritual Smoke Practices of the Late Period* and Mahmoud's translation of the *Papyrus of the Serpent's Breath*. Fair warning though, some of the source material suggests these