Door in the Dragon\u2019s Throat, pp. 83-90<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nGood god, just when I thought it couldn\u2019t be worse<\/em>.\u00a0You know what. It gets worse<\/em>. It does. It really does.<\/p>\nJay and Lila have been kidnapped. In this section, we\u2019ll focus solely on them, but it\u2019s worth remembering that Dr. Cooper has gone to President Al-Dallam to ask for help finding his children, and President Al-Dallam has dispatched Gozan to take care of it.<\/p>\n
So. Jay and Lila.<\/p>\n
At that very moment, Jay and Lila were huddled on a floor against a wall in a very small, dark, musty bungalow hidden deep within the intricate maze of winding streets, blind alleys, and obscure passageways. they were both looking up at what truly looked like a ghost: the dimly lit, ragged-robed, leathery-faced old man, the Shaman of the Desert. He stood there against the rough-hewn door trembling, the yellow light form a lone candle casting a slowly dancing shadow behind him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I\u2019ll remind you that this leathery-faced old man that looks like a ghost somehow snatched two teenagers<\/em> and ran, dragging or carrying them\u2014while simultaneously preventing them from crying out\u2014through a long series of passageways so quickly that their father couldn\u2019t follow.<\/em><\/p>\nPeretti goes on like this, adding more detail:<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
The old man was blocking the door, but strangely enough he looked at least as afraid of Jay and Lila as they were of him.<\/p>\n
With a low and trembling voice, he said, \u201cPlease \u2026 do not harm me. I mean you no evil.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jay and Lila looked at each other quizzically. What kind of a kidnapper was this?<\/p>\n
The old man\u2019s eyes were full of fear, and he seemed to be cowering agains the door.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not call a curse down upon me,\u201d he begged, \u201cand may I find mercy in the eyes of your God. I must talk to you!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Let\u2019s review. The shaman musters up the energy and resolve to physically kidnap<\/em> two teenagers, and now he\u2019s only described as cowering and begging and trembling?<\/p>\nThis made me look back up a moment, and I noticed something. I only show you snippets, so I didn\u2019t give you Jay and Lila\u2019s reaction to being kidnapped, before this bit about the shaman cowering. But it occurs to me that for two children who just got kidnapped in a foreign country in the \u201cbad\u201d area of town, they ought to be doing some trembling themselves, and they\u2019re not.<\/em><\/p>\nHere is their reaction to being kidnapped:<\/p>\n
Jay spoke first, and angrily. \u201cAll right, you\u2019ve kidnapped us, you\u2019ve thrown us in here, and I take it you\u2019re not going to let us go. Now what?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
We have two children, ages 13 and 14, who are calm, confident, and angry, and an old man, the shaman, who is trembling, cowering, and afraid\u2014despite the fact that he\u2019s the one who has just kidnapped and is imprisoning said children.<\/em>\u00a0This makes total sense.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
The shaman never explains why he kidnapped the children. He says \u201cI must talk to you!\u201d and \u201cI have seen that the God you serve is strong\u201d and \u201cI need your help!\u201d But that\u2019s it. This makes no sense at all. Literally no sense. If Dr. Cooper was willing to drive to the Street of the Scorpion\u2014why the shaman couldn\u2019t just meet with them at the site I do not know\u2014he was clearly willing to talk to the shaman. Why not just talk to Dr. Cooper? Why kidnap his children instead?<\/p>\n
None of this makes any sense.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\u201cNot so fast,\u201d Lila insisted. \u201cLet\u2019s clear up the little matter of our supply shed and why you blew it up.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
You see what I mean? Calm, confident, and angry.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had to stop you. You \u2026 you must not open the Door. Believe me, it does not contain any treasure, but only evil.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Why does the shaman think kidnapping his two kids and telling them<\/em> this will make Dr. Cooper<\/em> halt his team\u2019s operations? What even is going on here.<\/p>\nI want you to notice something. The shaman just said that the door does not contain any treasure, \u201cbut only evil.\u201d I want you to notice this because Jay and Lila do not believe him.\u00a0Everything in this section will be motivated by Jay and Lila\u2019s desire to get the Door open. Literally everything. Jay and Lila\u00a0convert the shaman to Christianity<\/em> in order to get him to give up his secrets so that they can open the Door. Yes, really. It\u2019s that bad.<\/p>\nJay asks the shaman how he knows there is only evil behind the door. He takes a \u201cstrange, black box\u201d off a shelf and tells Jay that he is \u201cthe Keeper of the Sacred Chest.\u201d Jay immediately notices that the sacred chest bears the same inscription as the door.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is this box?\u201d asked Jay. \u201cWhat\u2019s in it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAccording to our ancient traditions,\u201d said the old man, \u201cit is the Sacred Chest of Shandago, the God of the Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jay asked again, \u201cAnd what\u2019s in it?\u201d<\/p>\n
The old man hesitated before answering, as if he were about to reveal a very dark and forbidden secret. \u201cAccording to the ancient traditions \u2026\u201d Again he hesitated. \u201c\u2026 it holds the one and only key to the forbidden Door of Shandago!\u201d<\/p>\n
Jay and Lila looked at each other rand read each other\u2019s face. They knew better than to betray any excitement, but this was a very, very intriguing discovery indeed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Really? Really?<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s review. The shaman says the door holds evil. Jay asks how the shaman knows. The shaman says he knows because he is the Keeper of the Sacred Chest. Jay asks what\u2019s in the chest. The shaman says the key to the door is in the chest. Jay is suddenly excited. Why? Because the key would let them open the Door, of course!<\/p>\n
The door that contains evil.<\/em> According to the shaman.<\/p>\nBut Jay doesn\u2019t care about the shaman\u2019s expertise any more than his father cared about Gozan\u2019s knowledge about the site and its history. All Jay sees is treasure.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve never opened it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly Shandago, the God of the Earth, can open the Chest, and only at the proper time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
At this point Lila asks \u201csay, what religion are you anyway?\u201d No, really. That\u2019s basically how she asks it.<\/p>\n
\u201cUh \u2026 just what kind of religion are you, anyway?\u201d Lila asked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Turns out he\u2019s \u201ca Chaldean sorcerer, a wizard.\u201d His ancestors were \u201cChaldeans and magicians, well-versed in the ancient mystery religions of Babylon.\u201d The chest has been passed down from father to son for generations, to him.<\/p>\n
Sorcerer. Magician. Shaman. Wizard. So many words.<\/p>\n
The shaman restates that opening the box is forbidden. See, that\u2019s what Jay keeps asking about, repeatedly\u2014he\u2019s shocked that the shaman has never opened it. The shaman isn\u2019t having it.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy father tired to open the Sacred Chest, and he died a horrible death! He did not learn from the death of his<\/em> father, who also died horribly after he<\/em> tried to open it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\nNow, check this out:<\/p>\n
The old man gave a little gasp, and his eyes darted about the room, full of fear hat perhaps the pagan god he served and heard his words of betrayal. He continued whispering to them desperately. \u201cThis Sacred Chest \u2026 and the Door in the Dragon\u2019s Throat \u2026 and the God of the Earth\u2014they are all unspeakably evil. Shandago has lied. He has fooled the people of Nepur into thinking the Door contains a vast treasure so they will try to open it, but it hides a terrible evil that he wishes to unleash upon the world. Please, I beg you. Do not open the door. Abandon any thought of it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Let\u2019s be very clear here. The shaman says that the behind the door is unspeakable evil, and that all the talk of treasure is wrong. He begs<\/em> them to give up any thought of opening the door.<\/p>\nHow do Jay and Lila respond?<\/p>\n
\u201cWill you excuse us a minute?\u201d Jay asked, pulling Lila aside.<\/p>\n
The two of them huddled in a corner of the room and had a quick conference.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you think?\u201d Jay asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know about any of this. He\u2019s not making any sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, he does make sense if you decipher what he\u2019s saying. Think of it, Lila. Nimrod was regarded as a deity by the ancient Babylonians, and they even believed that he became the stun and flew across the sky every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lila\u2019s eyes brightened. \u201cThe star from heaven?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cExactly. All this fear and superstition is part of the old mysterious religions, sure, but clear all that away and what do you have?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe key to that lousy Door.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the treasure of nimrod.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo what do we do now?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStart praying and follow it through.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay.\u201d<\/p>\n
They broke their huddle and rejoined the old man at the table.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
They\u2019re after the treasure. What the hell makes them any different from Gozan?<\/p>\n
And if I may just point out, the shaman has already displayed an interest in their God, and a belief in their God\u2019s power, and they haven\u2019t yet discussed the possibility that they might try to convert him. You would think that that would matter more than any treasure. But it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Jay asked, \u201cWhat can we do to help you?\u201d<\/p>\n
The old man seemed relieved to hear Jay\u2019s offer. \u201cThe God you serve is greater than any other god, even the God of the Earth. I do not own this Chest\u2014it owns me! Shandago rules my life and terrifies me with his curses, and now \u2026 since you have come and have brought your mighty God with you, I wonder \u2026\u201d The old man\u2019s eyes filled with tears and he began to shake. \u201cI wonder if your God could not make a way of escape for me, to free me from the curse of the Sacred Chest and from Shandago! Your God may have power over the curse that binds me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The shaman has to beg<\/em> Jay and Lila to tell him how he can join their religion. He\u2019s been saying repeatedly that he can see how powerful their God is and that\u2019s why he wanted to talk to them, but no, they didn\u2019t bite! They spent all their time cross talking about treasure and a key!<\/p>\nJay and Lila are the worst evangelicals\u00a0ever<\/em>.<\/p>\nNow that the shaman has begged them to please, please<\/em> tell him how he can be saved, Jay and Lila share the gospel message with him.<\/p>\nIn that little bungalow, by the light of that one candle, Jay and Lila began to tell the old Chaldean sorcerer how to put aside his ancient occult crafts and find true peace and forgiveness in Jesus. They had to put the gospel into pretty simple terms,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
WTF?<\/p>\n
but before long the old man began to understand that Jesus, the pure and holy Son of God, paid the price for sins with His own life so every person could be free from sin, fear, and death, and could even be set free from any lying, evil gods that might be controlling his life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Lord \u2018a\u2019 mercy<\/em>.<\/p>\nTrembling and crying, the shaman prays the sinner\u2019s prayer and accepts Jesus as his savior. He declares himself \u201cborn,\u201d and Jay corrects him, saying that he is \u201cborn again<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\nThe old man clapped his hands ass he laughed. \u201cYes, yes! I have begun to live again! The curse, the evil, is gone form my life!\u201d Suddenly, as the thought returned to the ex-shaman, eh grew very sober. \u201cBut the Door! The Door is still there! It must not be opened!\u201d He grabbed the black box and shoved it into Jay\u2019s arms. \u201cHere, please, you are strong in your God. Take the Chest and destroy it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay,\u201d said Jay. \u201cBut first I\u2019m going to open it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
&$#%*@_#&@#+_%&<\/p>\n
Okay, I give up.\u00a0I thought I could keep going, but I can\u2019t. We will have to continue this next week. I mean, what the hell, Jay. What the hell.<\/p>\n
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