The Sacrifice and the Night of the Ritual Sariphi is taken in chains to the Kingdom of Beasts, Ozmargo, as a sacrifice. The King is intrigued when she is rude to his chancellor Anubis but shows no fear. Her name means "sacrifice" and her adoptive parents raised her as a surrogate sacrifice replacing their own daughter and she has accepted her fate. The King temporarily treats her as a guest and takes her on an inspection of a border town where flowers grow - one of the few places in the kingdom not covered with poisonous miasma...