LOSE) As the taller one rushes to tackle you, you duck down. He stops, and laughs at your feeble attempt. He picks you up by the neck and throws you against the brick wall. You pick up a solid rock and throw it with all your might at the two thieves. It hits the smaller one on the shoulder. "Ahhh!” he cries, "Now you’re done for!" The taller one pulls out his sword and you become history. Over four thousand years later, in 1927, a British archaeologist named Sir Leonard Woolley discovers the ruins of the lost city of Ur, along with your skeletal remains.

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