The Tomb-Robber's Code
The rules for entering a tomb are not superstition but experience paid for in lives. At their core lies a single line: you come to look and to take, not to leave anything behind.
Those who enter tombs have rules for entering tombs, passed down generation to generation—not superstition, but experience paid for in lives.
Light a candle to read the air, a black donkey's hoof to pin down the corpse, glutinous rice to seal the corpse-vapor, a fire-strike kept as a last resort—these are the open ones. There are darker ones too: do not step on the footprints left by predecessors (that spot has been 'locked,' and one who steps there will be chained by the same chain), and leave nothing of one's own behind in the tomb—not even a cigarette butt, not even a scrap of paper.
At the core of the code lies a single line: you come to look, you come to take—not to leave anything behind. Leave a part of yourself in the tomb, and the tomb remembers you.
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