AA) You run as fast as you can toward the enormous ziggurat. The two thieves are close behind. You are starting to tire. You trip and fall. Just as the thieves close in, you hear a familiar voice cry, "There they are!" Three armed guards rush in and apprehend the two men. The familiar voice was your father's! "You're alive!” you shout. You father tells you how an old traveler found him in the desert and brought him here. Apparently, these two men have been searching for that necklace for years and were the same thieves that attacked you in the desert. "Let's go back home to Lagash!” you both say.

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