are knocked unconscious, she encounters Anubis in a dream who is talking with Walt Stone and he gives her more advice about the Book of Ra. To Sadie's disappointment, Anubis is not present when she and Carter are gambling their souls with Khonsu. Anubis later states that he was busy with a "side project" that he won't elaborate on while Walt glances at a picture Sadie made of Anubis, suggesting that the god and the magician are plotting something together. In The Serpent's Shadow, Anubis appears with Sadie's mother after she is knocked unconscious and offers her clues about the shadow box that she saved. During a dance that Sadie attends, Anubis appears to dance with her, stunning the popular girls who were harassing Sadie moments before, including Greek demigod Drew Tanaka and making them extremely jealous. Anubis offers Sadie advice on her and Carter's plan to destroy Apophis despite the magic being so forbidden that he's not even allowed to talk about it. Anubis then reveals that ghosts are being absorbed by Apophis' shadow before his great-grandfather Shu appears to break the two up. Shu reveals that due to Anubis' growing romantic feelings for Sadie, he has been banned from seeing her with Anubis stating that such a relationship is forbidden unless the god is using a human host which has never been how Anubis works. Walt eventually admits to Carter that Anubis thinks he only has until the next day's sunset to live and that the god has been helping him to make sense of his strange new power to turn things to dust. Anubis thinks he understands why Walt has that particular power and Anubis has a plan to extend his life, but it's not a cure and is risky, never been done before and might come with side effects that they won't like. When Walt is near death from his curse, Anubis appears to him and Sadie is annoyed to realize that the two have been plotting behind her back together. Near death,Walt agrees to what they've been planning together, both Anubis and Walt unable to bring themselves to leave Sadie. After Walt dies, Anubis vanishes and Walt is suddenly resurrected. Sadie finally realizes that Walt and Anubis' plan was for Walt to become Anubis' host and that Walt's strange death powers had come from him channeling Anubis' power for months. Overwhelmed, Sadie leaves through a