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414 JUAN FRANCISCO BLANCO “Tell them to look around more. There must be some way both of these chambers are connected,” Tital told Viviana to tell Moka. “We need to look around the walls in this room, maybe there is something, a lever, a screw to turn, something to push or pull, that would lead to a hidden staircase, or to a hidden doorway.” “They’re trapped, alright. Like rats in a stone cage,” Yum Cimil said, as he sat with his cohorts up on the side of Kukulcán’s Pyramid. “Yes, but they’re smart, smarter than rats. They can always go back to Earth,” Ikal Ahau agreed, as they listened through the air vent that connected to the chambers deep below. “Then we could control this whole planet. Then I could rename it. I hate the name Vivia,” Yum Cimil said as he shook his fist in the air. “They were certainly smart enough to have sent the pair of monkeys into the air vents, and finding the lost Queen’s chamber. Something we didn’t find. It must have a force field around it, or else we would have discovered it first,” Ikal Ahau said. “They may have discovered it first, but we can use it to fight our battles. They must not escape from me this time! This time I will conquer them through superior might. We are Spirits; we are ages older than they are. We should find it easy to control them. I want to take them all to be my personal slaves in Xibalbá. It is my right, after what that man, Tital, did to me. I am the