Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm. Hang on. What about traps? He frowned. Traps? Didn't Egyptian tombs have traps? Well…sometimes. But this isn't a tomb. Besides, more often they had curses, like the burning curse, the donkey curse— Oh, lovely. That sounds so much better.

The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid (ed. Penguin UK, 2010) - ISBN: 9780141331584