"You see... My employer and I hid from the rain in this cave, yeah? Only, it wasn't a cave at all; it was a tomb." He paused dramatically. "There was this mummified lizard woman and this weird book. The self-writing about us kind."
"So, as my employer is ill-advisedly still reading the thing, I can feel this surge of magic coming from it. I yanked it from him and shut it, but it was too late. The mummy was... unmummifying."
Another dramatic pause. "The punchline though? She was, I shit you not, a librarian. A sexy one, even despite the whole was just dead thing, and she knew it. He got bent out of shape because her wiles got to me at first. The way back to town was awkward as hells."
"See? Not much of a story."