It’s time to figure out how to fix that dimension pyramid snafu in the final book of
Pyramids: “The Book of 101 Things A Boy Can Do”.
Summary
Teppic and You Bastard have accidentally wandered into a little side dimension containing the Sphinx, which gives him the old “what walks on four legs in the morning” riddle. Teppic doesn’t get it, but then argues that the riddle is frankly a bit too broad in its assumptions about time and insists that the riddle needs alteration. By the time they’ve finished the conversation, the Sphinx doesn’t remember telling him the answer, so he’s able to give it again and they leave for the proper dimension. The priests of Djelibeybi are at a loss because the gods won’t listen to them, and they have no king to intercede on their behalf. In the old days sometimes a king would be sacrificed in his place, they think perhaps Dios would do. He’s just about to agree when the legions of mummies appear. They go to break into the pyramid