" Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm.
“Hang on. What about traps?”
He frowned. “Traps?”
“Didn’t Egyptian tombs have traps?”
“Well…sometimes. But this isn’t a tomb. Besides, more often they had curses, like the burning curse, the donkey curse—”
“Oh, lovely. That sounds so much better. "
― Rick Riordan , The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)