The old man had skin like ancientpapyrus: it was all lined and flaking and seemed brittle.
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Unluckily for them, this was not, as it easily might have been, written on the ancientpapyrus, but on paper made of rags.
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Hieroglyphic figures shone from ancientpapyrus-shone not with light but with an intense blackness that seemed about to suck out his soul through his eyes.