From what he could make out of the writing on the crumpled paper, Sam knew that his old friend had stumbled upon something extraordinary. After a laying the body on the table, he left his friend behind and went into his office down the hall. The small office seemed even smaller with all of the artifacts, documents and personal treasures that Mata had collected throughout the years. He bagman to search through the organized mess in search of something that might give him some insight into what his mentor had discovered. He searched through piles of notes, cluttered shelves and stacks of boxes and found nothing out of the ordinary.
His frustration was now getting the better of him. He looked over the paper over and over again but couldn't make sense of the why Mata had this piece of a growing puzzle. He thought back at the time he had spent here a few years ago and all of the things this man had taught him. He thought about the carved rock and the god king that stared back at him. Just then, he shot up from the seat of his teachers desk. He remembered what the god king had left behind. A secret chamber was discovered underneath Zoomorph B in 1902. It contained personal possessions of the king which included flint blades and decorative jewelry and several small carved stones. One of the stones was that of the Mayan symbol for "time."
Sam ran out of the office and into the small museum of the cultural center. The carved stones had been on display here for only the last decade. He had seen them in the case many times but had never inspected them himself. He grabbed an imported Chinese replica of a Mayan stone Stela from the museums gift shop and smashed the glass of the display case. He grabbed the rocks and examined them closely to try and see what Mata had seen. The carvings were glyphs of the symbols of time, the human man, an eye from heaven, and the earth. With these images running through his head he thought of any connections with the stone stela.
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