portraying the demon as both no larger than a toy poodle and as a male. Bau - Evil Egyptian plague spirits. The Seven Arrows of Sekhmet - Seven powerful plague spirits created by Sekhmet. They are set up in the Brooklyn Museum by the forces of Apophis as a trap for the Kanes and their allies and are released when Sadie grabs the first part of the Book of Ra, activating every reservoir of magic in the museum. One is destroyed by Freak the griffin who eats the bau with no ill effects, but another infects Walt Stone. Healer Jasmine "Jaz" Anderson manages to cure Walt, but at a great cost to herself. With the remaining bau infecting the innocent mortals present in the museum, Jaz manages to channel the power of Sekhmet to banish the six surviving bau back to the Duat, curing their victims while the magicians escape on Freak. However, the amount of energy that Jaz had expended in the process sends her into a coma that she doesn't recover from until the return of Ra to the world revitalizes her. Carriers — Copper-skinned men who capture targets, put them into a black box known as a sedan and take them to their masters. In The Red Pyramid, four carriers chase after the Kanes and Bast as they attempt to escape to a location where they can open a portal to escape. Bast sets the cats of New York City onto the carriers, but it only distracts them briefly with the carriers continuing their chase at superhuman speed. As Sadie struggles to open a portal, Bast battles the carriers in her combat avatar, but they reform each time that she destroys one of them. Finally, Carter joins in and he is ordered by Bast to slice them up into smaller pieces. After Bast destroys each one, Carter slices them up into tinnier pieces with his khopesh, finally destroying them once the carriers have been turned into tiny pieces of clay. However, the victory doesn't last long as the goddess Serqet arrives shortly thereafter to continue the fight with her army of scorpions. Criosphinx — A type of sphinx encountered by the Kanes while they were in Luxor, Egypt. Dozens of them were summoned by House of Life magicians to kill the Kanes, but Carter managed to destroy one while Sadie opens a portal to Paris and escape.