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You approach the glowing green stone reverently, Zhu at your side. And as you get closer, your heart lurches. There's something disconcertingly familiar about it.

It's not just green. Across its surface, and buried in its translucent interior, you see what look like large veins and splotches of some golden substance. Immediately, in your mind's eye, you are back at the Bull's Horns in Transjordan. This exact same patterning—unlike anything you ever saw before—characterized the two blue stones, the Urim and Thummim, that were set into the high priest's breastplate.

Another of the Relics of Power. Another object sought by Schneider and Paulus and García. What is going on here?

Caught up in the wonder of the moment, you instinctively reach out and touch the stone. Lifting it from its bed, you cradle it in both hands.

And then something wondrous happens.

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