Jamie had noticed it already but didn't think it seemed all that interesting compared to the dead body in the room. Yet it was weird to be sure. The light from the torch showed the wall to be made from brick rather than the large stone slabs that made up the rest of the place.

What's more the bricks weren't formed in the way that bricks usually were. Instead they lay side by side, stacked perfectly with their ends making up the surface of the wall. Jamie walked over to it and took a closer look. They were grey in colour and each had a strange mark on them.

“That's the mark of a Roman Legion." Allison's words echoed in his head as he remembered what she'd said whilst looking at the brick in Sonya's bag.

As he looked over the wall he saw that the bricks weren't connected to the wall at either side or on the roof, nor were they connected to each other by any kind of cement or mortar. Reaching up he slid his fingers into the thin gap between the roof and the wall and pulled one of the bricks free. When he did however, he underestimated just how heavy the thing was and dropped it from the infirm grasp his fingertips had on it. The brick smashed onto the ground by his foot with a strange metallic clang instead of shattering as he thought it would.

“Bricks don't usually do that right?" Elisha had now entered the room.

Her curiosity finally outweighed her fear of the corpse.

“I'm pretty sure they don't." Jamie said as he reached down to pick it up.

When he'd lifted up Elisha shone the light of the torch upon it and her eyes widened in shock. The impact of the landing had scraped away the surface of the brick and beneath it glimmered with a shiny yellow colour.

“Is that what I think it is?" She asked, her voice barely above a whisper.

"I think so." Jamie said in a matching tone as he watched the glinting of the metal.

It was gold. It had been painted grey to look like a stone wall of bricks then hidden in a secret chamber with this dead body for years.

“Are they all...?" Elisha left the question hanging as Jamie reached for another brick and then another to scratch away the paint and reveal the precious metal beneath it.

“Y-yeah." Jamie finally said.

“Jamie, you're rich!" She exclaimed and promptly threw herself at him to give a congratulatory hug.

Jamie started to laugh in excitement as his free arm wrapped around her.

“I'm rich!" He said before dropping the gold bar and picking her up, twirling her around in the air whilst they both cheered.

After Jamie had set her back down on her feet Elisha looked over the vast treasure and pointed the torch down the narrow gap between the bricks and the outer wall.

“Oh my god Jamie I can't even see the end at the other side. The bricks must be stacked at least twenty feet into this wall. How do you suppose you're gonna get all this back to..." Yet she trailed off as she looked over to Jamie. It seemed he'd noticed something on the other side of the altar and was looking at it with avid interest.

There was a small glass vial stood on an outcropping of the altar.

With a slight apprehension he stepped over towards it and picked it up.