Scene opens with the camera on a tall man [Karias] in late medieval armor; shield emblazoned with twining red and blue serpents; torchlight glinting off his mail. Two other figures can be seen with him - a child [Sammi] in a green tunic with a dagger at their hip and a woman [Elena] in a floor-length robe leaning on a wooden staff. They appear to be standing in a cave. The man is speaking into some kind of device, his voice echoing in the confined space.
Karias: The charges are set and we’re clear of the door. Whatever Nekraat and her servants were searching for down here will soon be in our hands.
Sammi: Or blown to smithereens!
The voice of a young man spills from the device; its sound tinny and slightly crackly as if heard over an old-fashioned radio.
Young man: Good news! And I’ve more good news - you know those inscriptions up here we’ve been trying to figure out?
The robed woman leans in attentively.
Elena: Have you deciphered them? Are they some form of portent?
Young man: Hells if I know. But Stephan and Keela have been working to crack it since you left camp and they’ve got something. I’ll put Stephan on.