The Cardinal Directive: Supplemental Files #15

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>> Supplemental File Located
>> Data suggests recording date several months prior to Mission Log #47
>> Play?
>> Confirmed. Now Playing Supplemental File #15

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The footage shudders and clicks a few times before it truly begins, offering brief snapshots of scenes.

The first is a familiar one. A camera tracks a man and a woman moving deeper into the woods, the thick fog swallowing them whole as dust begins to flurry down into the cavern in their place.

The second is placed high in one of the blackened trees, just barely able to make out their silhouettes as they slink by. If not for the small trail of brightly lit moss behind them, one could almost mistake them for artifacts on the camera’s view.

There’s a brief moment of darkness, of shifting rock and a cry out.

And the third view finally clicks onto a familiar camera — the one holstered on Sebastian’s chest as it focuses on his arm.

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It wasn’t a grievous wound by any means, which he could at least be thankful for. Still, it was a gnarly looking scrape, and it looked like he must have hit a sharp rock somewhere in there too, judging by a noticeable tear in his flesh.

With a grimace, he eyed their surroundings.

They’d stopped not far from the base of a fifteen-foot drop off so cluttered with trees that they hadn’t even seen it coming. Alison had gone over first, and leaping to catch her brought him down too. They’d managed to mostly slide down rather than fall, but it hadn’t left either of them unmarred.

They must’ve been traveling for at least a day since the second cluster of ARNEN buildings — though, it was hard to tell with the ever-present light and fog. It was confusing trying to navigate with so little to go off of about where they even were. The only indication they really had that they were getting anywhere was that it was getting warmer the deeper down they proceeded.