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	'No, of course we don’t want to wake the dead,’ said Jack with a roll of his eyes. He sighed. ‘Can we just keep going? This place gives me the creeps.’  

It didn’t smell too bad for a place of death, though, Jack thought while Amber continued walking ahead between the walls of sarcophagus and, despite his own words of wanting to move on, Jack delayed following her for the time being. Something had caught his eye. It was the twinkling like that of a bright star sparkling with various colours. The small spectrum of light was coming from atop a stone shelf protruding out from the wall next to one of the floor-level sarcophagus to his right. He turned towards it, tilting his head to try and make out what it was. 

It was then that Jack noticed that the majority of the sarcophagus in the chamber had stone shelves next to them, displaying what were mostly small items - obviously Grave Goods or Votive Offerings – that were likely connection and holding personal or religious value to the deceased, and were placed there by relatives during or after the burial service. This particular item, however, was much more eye-catching than anything else he had noticed in the chamber. Jack figured it was a gemstone of some variety and, as he stepped up closer to it, he saw that he was right. It was a magnificent jewel, similar to a parti sapphire, maybe some variety of extremely rare diamond. It was roughly the size of a golf ball, glorified in a fusion of dazzling blue, purple, pink, yellow and traces of green. 

As Jack stopped and stood next to the stone coffin, gazing down with hungry eyes at the beautiful sight before him, the Chilli on his shoulder turned her head to him. Her eye lids were no longer laden with boredom, rather widened with suspense, or possibly shock mixed with disbelief, perhaps even [i]disgust[/i] at what she though Jack was about to do. 

[i][b]‘Don’t touch….’[/b][/i] said Nip, her voice cascading through Jack’s mind for the second time. But Jack didn’t appear to care this time, his attention was instead dedicated to the gem. 

‘It’s okay…’ he replied in a low, automatic tone, ‘I just want a closer look.’ 

Amber, meanwhile, stopped when she heard Jack say something and she realised he wasn’t following her. Curious, she turned around to see him reaching for the gem. Her heart skipped a beat. Her breath lodged in her throat for a moment. She dropped the torch and started running towards him.

‘Jack, don’t touch that - No!’