"Allegedly."

"Do you know if they've made much progress?"

"Who are you and why do you want to know?"

"We're anthropology students from the University of Los Angeles. We came here looking for information about a dig site that was destroyed in 1926. We managed to track down Bartolo Acuna yesterday, and he seemed to think we might find this site of interest, too, as long as we're already here."

"I guess? It's super boring though. Even Louise thinks so and she loves boring things."

"Oh, really? Have you not found anything yet?"

"Yeah she's all like 'ugh, this is another site of the Forgotten God, we were trying to look for information about the Liar,' blah blah blah."

"The Forgotten God?"

"It's some old god she got out of books or something. My aunt thinks all this stuff is super important for some reason."
 
 
 
 

"Huh. Do you know what she was hoping to find? Something about the Liar?"

"They think the god was in jail or something. Who would put a god in jail? But when I asked Louise that she just sighed and started EXPLAINING things." Anchisa is very oppressed.

"Huh! Do you think Louise would be interested in talking to us about it? If she has time?"

"Probably? She's off at the Cathedral of St. Mary today but you can talk to her this evening if you want. Or you can talk to Mariam and Joan, they're in the tomb right now studying things."

Hmmmm why would she be at the Cathedral of St. Mary. Probably the obvious reason is if she is not a cult member and is instead Catholic, but still, hmmm. "Thanks! I wouldn't want to interrupt people if they're in the middle of something important, d'you think the people in the tomb would mind?"

"They'll probably be like 'blah blah this is a boring Liar site, Anchisa we're going to have to drag you off to SCOTLAND.' Where even is Scotland. Is it near Norway."

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"It's near England. It's not... not near Norway?"

What is this person even DOING here. " - well, I guess we can ask. And if they're busy we can wait for Louise to come back."

"Okay. I guess you can like wait in the tent or something? While I go get them."

"Thank you so much!" They can wait in the tent, then.

"What," Mordred says very quietly when Anchisa is not there.

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Inside the tent there is a writing desk with a field typewriter, a traveling bench of wood and canvas, designed to fold up, and drafting tables covered with papers.

Ooooh what papers.

They find diagrams of the Seven Kings, other obelisks, and the tomb they’re excavating, digging permits issued by the Axum Ministry of Culture, a telegram, and a site report.