boomersm:

Lawrence Croft, famous archaeologist (and in no way associated with that other Croft), has finally found the jungle temple of the Cats of Nicarasin…
He’d heard the legends, of jaguar heads made of gold… of power and riches, but that wasn’t what spurred him deep into the rainforest…
No… Lawrence merely wanted the adventure. The struggle.
But as his eyes fell on that first golden cat’s head, a strange impulse came over him. Like whispers in his head, urging him to touch it…

And touch it he did…