"We'd need someone who knows artifacts to look into it," Darkell tells his friend, "It's nothing from my book, so I'm flying blind. I can take care of your 'friend', though, if that helps anything," he raises his hand to cast a shadow on the wall, squeezing his hand, "I guess that, unless we have an artificer, our best bet is to just go in and look ourselves."
He's been getting increasingly worried lately. There were no signs of their actual enemy. He still couldn't get contact with whoever or whatever this new Rasul had in his shadow - not like Rasul left him many chances to do so. And he also worried about the rest of the team. Rasul and Dmitri... where are they now? What are they doing? Have they given up on them? Taken them for dead?