"Now take you the half that lies nearest to you and I will take mine.

If you die first I will lay my half upon your breast, and if I die first you shall do the same by me, or if the priests forbid it because I am royal and may not be profaned, cast the thing into my tomb.
What should we have done had the alabaster shattered into fragments, Ana, and what omen should we have read in them ?" "Why ask, O Prince, seeing that it has befallen otherwise ?" Then I took my half, laid it against my forehead and hid it in the bosom of my robe, and as I did, so did Seti.
So in this strange fashion the royal Seti and I sealed the holy compact of our brotherhood, as I think not for the first time or the last..