The ruin team departed, descending from the high elevation toward the site Sarika had marked before.
When they reached the ruin, the men immediately set to work.
The site itself was barely visible, just a series of uneven stones protruding from beneath a thick crust of snow and frost, half-buried and smoothed by centuries of wind.
To those who are not paying attention, they wouldn't notice, passing them for nothing more than shattered boulders.
As shovels bit into the ice and picks struck at frozen soil, a different pattern began to emerge.
Before long, they uncovered the unmistakable outline of a stone structure, a wall.
Its surface was engraved with strange geometric symbols unlike anything they'd ever seen. The stones were cut with precision that no primitive hand could achieve. Their edges remain sharp despite the passage of time.
