A group of people wearing black robes emerged from the gates of the city.
A man in white sat on a litter, he was carried by the black robed men.
Dave watched carefully as the group moved away from the city and stood in the open desert. Then the man on the litter started dancing.
He was performing a ritual.
The sand shook and a living stone sphinx rose from under the sand dune.
It looked very like the actual Egyptian sphinx. Wearing a white pharaonic headcover, it had the body of a lion, the tail of a snake and the face of a beautiful woman.
Dave was too far away to get any information on the creature. He didn't want to risk getting closer and reveal his presence just to inspect it.
The sphinx shook the sand from its body and moved closer to the group.
The man wearing white stopped dancing and waved a hand, speaking to the people around him.
Four bruised and battered people wearing only chains were led toward the Sphinx.
