<span style="font-style: italic">Akmon knows that his little brother can thrash all he wants. He's not going anywhere thanks to the special chains and manacles holding him to the stone table. "Ari, Ariii... save your strength little brother. Soon you'll be fast asleep, and then all of your worries will be gone. Just relax!" He laughs manically, watching Ari shrink away from the priest carrying the syringe. Every move calculated. Everything's going off without a hitch. He steps forward out the shadows. "That, oh little Ari, is something that help my plan quite nicely. My plan being getting revenge on our beloved siblings, of course." He smiles grimly when Ari bucks when the priest inserts the needle into his arm. <br/><br/>He steps forward out of the shadows. "Why am i doing this? It's very simple little brother. You are the treasure of all their hearts. What better way to hurt them then take you away? Punish them for casting me away." The venom in his voice makes the snake that will kill Cleopatra in the future sound harmless. Malice gleams in his eyes when they meet Ari's. He comes closer to the youngest of the Egyptian gods. All the better to rub in how helpless he is. He smiles grimly. "You're lucky little one. I don't have the mind to kill you." He comes to stand besides the table, reaching to stroke a strand of ruby colored hair, just as he had done when Ari was a younger god. A parody of what the touch used to be. He watches in satisfaction as the crystal slowly covers the other gods body.<br/><br/>"Poor Ari. Maybe now the others will understand the pain I've gone through.  Treasured Ari alive but out of their grasp for all of eternity." He steps back again as Ari's eyes start to close. "Rest assured that I love you little brother Ari. You're just the best way to get to the others." He tilts his head back in laughter, the crystal up to Ari's chin, his eyes having a hard time staying open. He ignores Ari's last word before he's fully entombed in crystal like an insect in a piece of amber. He stands for a second his handiwork. Since his fall, he hadn't been able to sense the spirit form of the gods. "I told you Ra that you would be punished for banishing me. So protective of little Ari...and now he's gone forever!" He and the members of the cult vanish in a cloud of smoke, blowing out the torches, leaving the only light in the room the pulse of the crystal in time with Ari's heart beat.</span><br/><br/>It doesn't take much to wake Stella up this night. At first, she thinks it's just him shifting around trying to get comfortable. Then his face twists in fear, his body becoming really warm. She tries to wake him up but to no avail. He starts thrashing, trying to escape whatever is tormenting him. He's said<span style="font-weight: bold">brother</span>several times now, sometimes pleadingly and full of fear. It rends her heart in two  when he screams. She leaps out of bed, clearing the space of her room in a bound. She quickly dumps out the cup she uses to hold her tooth brush. She dashes back into the room, water sloshing all over the floor, but most of it does land on Ari. Hopefully it will break him out of  his nightmare world.