Death and Rebirth

As soon as he learned of the Sheik's son Shahir gathered enough food and water for several weeks and barricaded himself in his secret workshop.

It seemed like an eternity constructing it, the tiny clockworks, the brass limbs, its shell... Shahir picked the scarab as the form for his souls vessel. Then finally just as his food ran out the small golem was ready to be enchanted.

Four days later one of the Sheik's assassins managed to find and infiltrate Shahir's workshop only to find the Mechanician slumped over his workbench dead, apparently of dehydration.

Grabbing a saw off the table the assassin shrugged, Shahir's head was all he needed.

So intent was the assassin on Shahir that he never noticed the near silent whirr of the scarab as it slipped out the door to begin it's search for a new body.