ICARUS carries Rose and Alice to the digsite, with a bit of difficulty, two people at once is not easy.
The scene at the dig site is... not pretty to say the least. It takes Rose several moments before she recognizes the site and gets ICARUS to land. The first feature that draws the eye is the large pit filled with rubble in the very center of the place. Judging by the scorch marks and general debris, someone set off heavy-duty explosives to completely obliterate whatever lay on this site. The large stone slab that was the main focus of the dig, pictures of which Alice saw long ago, is in several pieces, the carvings on its surface completely destroyed and illegible. Next the eye will probably wander over to the tents that protected the equipment used on the dig and the artifacts they found. Most of the tents are in various stages of collapse, their contents smashed or thrown onto a big bonfire that still smolders weakly, sending up a thin line of black smoke. The worse is saved for last though, as one spots the hastily dug pit off to the side. A look inside the pit confirms the worse fears. Inside of the pit, stacked carelessly on top of each other, are the dead bodies of those who worked on the site, their features twisted into terrible grimaces of pain. Looming over the terrible pit is a colourful banner, it's slogan,
'For the Russia of our ancestors', almost mocking the horrors that were perpetrated here.
Rose takes all of this in, and simply stands there in shock.
"Oh, there's something way more... sensitive that I can remove. Now, I'll ask again. Who hired you?"
The man laughs,
/"Fine. I will tell you since you insist. Spartak Sokolov sent us. You will learn to fear his name soon enough."/
((In the grimdark grim darkness of the
far future RotMG...))