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Yum Cimil to disappear. Where he went and what happened to
him, Tital could only wonder about it. He had thought of and
hoped when he touched Yum Cimil’s forehead that he would be
imprisoned in a large stone like the story Mahucutah had told
him about what had happened to him. However, he didn’t know
for sure about Yum Cimil’s where abouts. All he did know was
that Yum Cimil vanished right in front of him. Tital was glad a
future king, Ronú, had unselfishly given the ring to Tital. Yet he
thought it would be one of the first questions he would like to
ask Huracán when he saw him again, what did happen to Yum
Cimil? Later, when Tital had a conversation with Huracán he
would learn that Huracán knew all the answers as soon as he saw
the Otherworldly ring on Tital’s finger.
Huracán was totally amazed that such a valuable and
powerful ring could have ever been lost, but when you consider
more than a billion kins, almost anything becomes possible.
Huracán would have to think hard to remember how long ago
the ring, from a set of nine rings, one for each of the Lords of the
Underworld to posses, had been handcrafted. He knew they had
been made from materials found deep in the slave mines of a
rich planet whose star, Krooe 3, was dying and ready to go nova
at any moment. At the Great Feathered Dragon’s detailed
instructions, the Underworld’s race of dwarves, the Bolon Ti Ku,
cast the set of rings from their volcanic fires and then placed the
large, fingernail-sized Indian Bloodstone in the center. Huracán
remembered the inscribed words circling the unique center
stone. The inscribed words on each of the nine rings were all
different. However, Huracán knew that only Kukulcán himself
and the Nine Lords of the Underworld could read the letters.
Huracán would even sit and wonder to himself which one of the