When the knight reached his side, the naked woman who sat on the table in front of the emperor moved and on the spot where she once sat, the chest was placed.
"Open it, it is a gift from the brave warrior to you." Festus urged him.
Now all eyes bore into the closed chest. The curiosity obviously eating up everyone. What could it be, the question lingered on the tip of the tongue of all they that feasted.
And with a huge grin on his face, and his fat hand tingling with excitement the emperor pushed the lid of the chest open.
At first the grin remained upon his face, then gradually, the curves on both sides of his mouth began to turn downwards and the excited expression upon his face began to twist into a frown.
"Eh—A—Ahhhhhhhh!" The woman beside him was the first to let out a terrified scream. Alerting the others of something dreadful dwelling inside the chest.
