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After packing up camp and heading up, they reach their destination only an hour north.

The tomb is just a little off the road, a massive door with intricate carvings around the frame in an unknown script. The characters in the script are made up entirely by straight lines. Given that straight lines lend themselves well to carving, it may indicate that whoever created this script was used to carving in stone. The door looks like it will open, as the hinges are intact, but it's ridiculously heavy and will need a lot of people to pull on those big carved handles.

Heave ho?

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[Who gives a shit about the door? Somebody will open it eventually, there's more than enough stubborn people here for that.

He's more interested in the carvings. He paces from one side of the frame to the other, inspecting them, marking things down on a pad of paper he brought with him, studying them with that fancy-ass magnifying glass of his. GOOD DAY.]

[This tween girl is doing much of the same thing a couple of feet away, but she's mainly tracing the lines with her fingers and doing a lot of contemplating. Every minutes or so, she looks over at Sherlock with well-hidden confusion.]

What, exactly, are you hoping to find with that? A microscopic decoder ring?

[he rolls his eyes without looking over.]

You think the entranceway just sprang out of the ground, fully decorated? Someone put these carvings here, might as well gather as much information about them as possible.

Of course I don't think that. It would be a ludicrous theory. My question pertained more to what you're hoping to learn with a magnifying glass.

That's exactly what I hope to learn about: the people who put the carvings here. Obviously.

And that's precisely what I was asking: what do you hope to see through a magnifying glass that will tell you more about them? I'm curious.

[absently:]

Distinctive marks in the stone from the tools that were used, relative skill of who -- or what -- did the carving, trace materials that might have been driven into the grooves during the carving process, et cetera.

Ah. I figured as much.

[Stepping a bit closer to see the same spot that he's examining.]

Have you found anything conclusive yet?

Conclusive? No. Interesting, yes. [He can't go any more in-depth than that. Losses and such.] I'd need to see the inside before I start forming any theories.

[She just figures that he doesn't want to say anymore, and leaves it alone.]

Well, if we ever manage to open this door I'll be interested to know precisely what the inside can tell us.

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