The boy looked at the sands around him, and saw that, where his tears had fallen,
a scarab beetle was scuttling through the sand.
During his time in the desert, he had learned that, in Egypt, the scarab beetles are a symbol of God.
Another omen! The boy began to dig into the dune.
As he did so, he thought of what the crystal merchant had once said:
that anyone could build a pyramid in his backyard.
The boy could see now that he couldn’t do so if he placed stone upon stone for the rest of his life.
Throughout the night, the boy dug at the place he had chosen, but found nothing.
He felt weighted down by the centuries of time since the Pyramids had been built.
But he didn’t stop. He struggled to continue digging as he fought the wind,
which often blew the sand back into the excavation.
His hands were abraded and exhausted, but he listened to his heart.
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