If you are not a cheat show me the future in that magic crystal.

I would learn the worst, so that I may know how to meet it when it comes." "Well, Wife, we will try, though to see such high visions the spirit should be calm, which I fear yours is not--nay, be not angry.

We will try, we will try.

Sit here now, and gaze, and above all be silent while I say the appropriate spells." So the ball of crystal having been set upon the table, the pair stared into it as Kaku muttered his charms and invocations.

For a long while Merytra saw nothing, till suddenly a shadow gathered in the ball, which slowly cleared away, revealing the image of dead Pharaoh clothed in his mummy wrappings.