"It was a gold statue. A coffin, I guess. 'The golden man'." It must have been exciting to see it but Chloe's still glad she and Nate had been on a break when all that had happened. "The people there had inhaled the dust from it or something - the mummy, I mean - and they were all like, bald and elongated. The cognitive effect was pretty immediate, too, apparently. Foaming at the mouth and stuff, black eyes. They were immortal too, maybe. My friend said some of them were Conquistadors."

Some of them had been Nazis too but that's not as old.

"Biggest thing you notice on the guys who ate the amber was black teeth. They were also huge and muscular and loved roaring but I don't know how much of that was from the ritual training they did."