"Three... you won!" Pomona said, unable to hide her excitement.
Severus said nothing. He removed the last piece from the board. There was still one jackal-headed piece belonging to the underworld, located in the Hall of Truth where the Pharaoh was. They had originally been one step ahead of Severus, but unfortunately, the underworld side had never rolled the 2 they needed.
For someone playing this game for the first time, it was a very good performance. Pomona could not help feeling smug.
"Where's our prize?" Pomona looked around.
Gong Saiyi went straight to the Pensieve.
"It's here," Gong Saiyi said, though he did not look particularly excited.
Pomona and Severus walked over as well. In the shallow basin of the Pensieve lay a black scarab amulet.
"Where's the dagger?" Pomona asked.
"It seems they don't want the outcome decided in a single round. We have to keep playing this game." Gong Saiyi looked at the amulet faintly visible beneath the silvery substance in the Pensieve. "This amulet was used by egyptians to deceive Death. As long as it was placed where a mummy's heart should be, all the dead person's unlawful deeds in life would be concealed. Before Osiris, even a sinner would be as pure as a lamb."
"So it's a cheating tool?" Pomona asked Gong Saiyi.
He said nothing.
"Merlin's beard." Pomona looked at Severus. "Did you cheat?"
"Why don't you suspect that the people in the underworld are trying to welsh on their debt?" Severus said calmly. "If this amulet works, then sinners must have slipped into the Egyptian Paradise. They were hardly good people when they were alive."
Pomona did not dwell on the matter.
In the Middle Ages, as long as one bought enough indulgences, even a devil could enter Heaven. Apparently, that habit