Senet

"In the shadowed halls of the Pharaoh's tomb, the oblong board of the game of Senet lay before me like a sinister portal to the underworld. The intricate symbols etched upon the board seemed to writhe and twist in the flickering torchlight, whispering secrets of a long-forgotten era, intoned by the dancing flames. As I lifted the game pieces and moved them across the board, a sense of dread c…