Amen sprints out of the darkness as walls cave in.

  Sand rises like water.

  Other beasts in the darkness run and attack Amen, but he jumps out of the way as they are swept back into the darkness.

  Amen's displays flash more warnings, but he clears them.

  I'm well aware.

  Amen comes into the light of the upper levels of the temple.

  Ziyad is grabbing as much treasure as he can.

  "We need to go! Now!" Amen yells.

  "I was looking for you!"

  "You were getting treasure!"

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  "That too, yes."

  Mostafa runs with his men as pillars fall.

  As the two cousins run, they run past where the crocodile is feasting on more priests, who have made a human chain to try to get their fellow men out.

  The chain is being eaten and thrown around and devoured.

  Bomani takes a breath, the ground shaking underneath his feet.

  He lifts the sledgehammer once more and swings with all of his might.

  The wall collapses on impact, and the rest of the temple with it.

  The pillars fall in. The ceilings collapse.

  More waves of sand sweep in.

  Priests or Madjay officers are buried alive or crushed.

  The treasure starts to be eaten by the sand and rock, being buried for eternity.

  Bomani looks at all as dreams break apart around him.

  He is then whisked away by the sand, into a collapsing wall that lands on him with a brutal thud.