Somewhere beneath the sands of Egypt, a ray of sunlight beams into a cavern deep underground for the first time in two years. A man looks into the gap and calls out in Arabic before running back to a green jeep where Pegasus Crawford is looking over a map.
"Pegasus!" He cries out, "I think we've found it!"
"I'm coming," Pegasus nearly falls out of the jeep in his rush, and has to hold his hair down to prevent it from revealing the scar where his left eye used to be. He sprints across the desert sand to reach the tiny hole that opens into the collapsed cavern and peeks inside. A grin spreads across his face as he catches the glint of gold. He turns, "I want this entire wall pulled down. How soon can it be done?" Pegasus' Arabic was smooth and practiced. For as many years as he had worked at dig sites in Egypt, it had been easy to pull together a group to help him excavate the site.
"An hour, maybe less."
"The sooner the better. What about the Ishtars?"
"No one has seen them yet, though I don't think they know we've started digging without their approval."
Pegasus smiled. The Millennium Eye was so close to him now, that its pull made him light-headed. He swayed on his feet for a moment, but put a hand out when the man tried to assist him. "Just keep digging. You'll be handsomely rewarded if we're able to recover the items by sundown." It was only a few hours past dawn, but Pegasus knew these things could take time. They didn't want to destroy the items in their haste to obtain them after all. He checked his phone again as he walked away and the digger began calling others over to assist. Ishizu hadn't called him. Not yet at least, but if this took longer than a day, it wouldn't be long before her suspicions were raised. Pegasus was too well recognized not to garner some attention.