“Do you mean the one that appeared in my bag?”
“Yes. I dragged myself up to the table and I pulled the cap with all my might. I vaguely looked inside it and I saw its content. There was liquid. A transparent liquid. With nothing to lose, I poured a small quantity of it on the wound and I closed the cylinder again. After that, I noticed how I lost the control of my body and the darkness hanged over me. Hours later, I woke up lying by the table safe and sound, without even a scratch. The only evidence of that accident was my slipper.”
Josef opened a drawer and took it out from inside it. It was partially ripped in half and stained with blood.
“What made you think it would work?” She asked surprised.
“Do you remember that I told you that after touching the sarcophagus in the Great Pyramid I started having very strange dreams?”
Margaret nodded.
“When we came back from Egypt, the dreams were incremented, but in a different way this time. Now I started seeing beings similar to the ones we found in the subterranean camera, but this time I could see them talking or even fighting. In one of those battles, I saw one of them falling to the floor with a deadly wound in his head. Seconds later, a similar being approached him with a cylinder like the one that appeared in your bag and pour its liquid on the wounded one. A few seconds later, he would was sealed and the being simply got up.”
“Why would they want to show you that dream?” Margaret asked.
“I don’t know. If you assure not having stolen the cylinder, who put it in your bag?”
The girl did not answer. The responsible one was Palac. Taking advantage of the fact that Margaret had neglected her bag in the Great Pyramid, he introduced the cylinder inside it with the hope that the piromeiso —Josef— found the way of using it so that he could stop the high mortality rate due to cancer, a disease that Cabolun had been responsible of incrementing its aggressiveness with the aim of destroying humanity.
“After that,” Josef continued “I received your phone call and I decided to try that mysterious liquid with your father. After the success obtained, I thought the fairest thin I could do was to reward my brother after all his years of dedication. He came to my house in person a few hours after he received my call to pick up the cylinder. A few days ago, they deciphered it composition and they reproduced it artificially. Counting your father, one hundred and twenty people have already been treated with the new drug.”
A few months later, scientist Steve Parker received the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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