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Cloze
Egyptian temple
In the cliffs of Egypt’s ancient desert, we’d discovered an
to a tunnel,
carved into the rock. We ventured in. The tunnel at a huge
vault. At the hall’s far end a wide staircase flanked tall
stone statues. The rose up to an enormous head. ‘This
place must
at the statues. Each held a long, upright
some sort of temple’, said Geena. I squinted
. I suggested quietly, ‘Those
statues … guards, you ?’ Geena nodded slowly. ‘Yeah, so.
Wealthy, too. See the band necklace and headband
made of gold!’ Thrilled, we crossed the floor space and began to
staircase. Halfway up, we paused. Looking up at the
guessed, ‘A pharaoh?’ Geena answered, ‘Maybe’, and then
each? They’re
‘Are those real snakes either of it?’ I hadn’t noticed .
Instead, I’d spied other things, like the
the
stone bust, I
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nervously,
sitting randomly on the steps,
the around the bust’s throat and two lit on the back
wall. Alerted, I looked us. Behind , two other snakes were
silently up the stairs!
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