Chapter 4 Declan,the Video and The Necklace
Magnus, Will and Henry found Declan in cave in the Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina. They were able to find Declan by tracking the signals from his staterlight phone and his laptop. Will thought Declan was dead when saw a bloody line across Declan's forehead. Magnus saw his chest moving as he breathed. On closer inspection, she found a letter left on his chest explaining how to treat him. That note also said it would be a good idea if the present wearer kept the necklace he had been given or gave it to someone most dear to him if they went exploring Antarctica or Hollow Earth. It may just save their life
Somebody else wrote a note at the end of the letter. Someone, with terrible handwriting, wrote an apology to Declan for the photo of him and Kate together being ripped. The author said it happen as they were explaining to their superiors why they should let Declan go. The photo of Kate in his arms proved that they were a couple and thus she was his spouse. And as his spouse she had a right to know what happened to him. There was no reason to hold him but still some of the author's the superiors wouldn't let him go. The writer reminded their superiors of the law and then told them that they should either let him go home or let the author tell Kate why he was being held. Apparently there was a law that said as Kate was Declan's spouse, she had the right to knew what happened to Declan. One of the author's superiors didn't being reminded of that law and hit the writer while they were holding the photo for their trouble. That's how the photo got ripped and Declan was allowed to leave Hollow Earth.
While still slightly befuddled by the letter, Magnus called Kate and told her that Declan was alive but unconscious. She told Kate that she was doing everything she could to revive him. When Magnus got him to the Old City Sanctuary infirmary to do a proper exanimation, she found the necklace, it had the same patter of alternating beads of dark green jade and obsidian in a red gold chain with same coat-of-arms craved on as Helen's bracelet, although necklace beads were much smaller than the beads on Helen's bracelet. The style of the necklace remind Helen of a rosary: the alternating beads of dark green jade and obsidian in a red gold chain came down to a metal plate that one pendent depicting two dragons, one with wings holding harp or lair in one hand and crossing swords with a dragon with and one without wings and a saddle impression in its back, holding a weapon that looked a lot like a rifle. From that plate hung another red gold chain of dark green jade and obsidian beads lead to another pendent. This pendant depicted a girl that was dancing with a bow in her left hand, an arrow in her right, a sword on her belt and a bleeding heart behind her. On closer inspection, the girl had 4 scars on her face.
Magnus also found the Declan had five deep claw marks down both his right and left forearms. Will suggested that maybe when Declan fell and injured his head, something get hold of him but he was too heavy for its grip but it refused to let Declan go and left the scares on his arms. Helen thought that was an interesting theory however right now she was more interested in bring Declan back to the New City Sanctuary.
Henry noticed that something happened to the laptop in Argentina that turned the camera on and recording. However the files were corrupted. He had spent a few weeks recovering the video. Kate wasn't terribly interested in the video. She just wanted Declan to wake up. Magnus, however, was intrigued as to who gave Declan the necklace.
The video showed the cave where Declan was found. From what Henry had since recover (in random bits and pieces), the video showed John Druitt teleporting into the cave and then hitting his head, a man named Jared Riegel who studied psychology with Will at Uni and teenage girl that John always called Dunja. Dunja looked tiny when she stood next to Druitt so Helen guess her height at around 5'2'', she had dark blonde braided hair tied up into a bun, pointed elf-like ears, four claw marks running left to right diagonally across her face with the two middle scars narrowing missing her left eye and the right side of her face was bruised. She was dress in black and dark green military like clothes and black fingerless gloves; she was armed with a small sword on her belt, some kind of hand gun in a holster strapped to her right thigh and a round shield on her back.
The coat-of-arms on the shield was just like the pattern on the bracelet John had given her. A black dragon with grey wings of the left-hand side, holding harp or lair in one hand was crossing swords with a very dark green dragon with no wings and a saddle like impression on its back on the right hand side that was also holding a weapon that looked a lot like a rifle. Under the crossed swords was what looked like a wolf's paw print, only it had five toes instead of four. Under the paw print the dragons had their tails tied together. Encompassing all the figures, there were words written in Rune-like letters along the rim of the shield. Jared was wearing similar clothes to Dunja and, seemingly, could speak her language too.
Interestingly Dunja always called Druitt 'Montague'. The computer was damage and Henry couldn't recover most of what was said between, just few half sentences, phases that made no senses and a few conversations that would have made sense if viewer knew what the context for them was.
Jared did something the laptop to boost its single, Dunja helped the camera got a good look at eyes, right eye was blue and the other was green but around the pupil the iris was like tiger eye in both eyes.
When John said that they had to leave now, Dunja kneeled beside Declan and chanted in a strange language. Half way through her chant, she cut her right thumb on her left maxillary canine tooth and rubbed her thumb across Declan's forehead.
John was about the go over to her when Jarred called him back. He said, "Dunja is praying for him. The prayer is from one warrior to another. She is trying to invoke the spirits of fallen warriors to guide him back home and to his sweetheart safely. And that his wounds heal with no ill effects and while he is healing, his people and his family are safe."
Dunja finished her chant and kissed Declan's forehead. Video showed that Dunja was the one with terrible handwriting that wrote the apology at the end of the letter. John told Dunja to point the pen over her should in a tone that struck Helen as very school teacher like. Will was curious as to why Jarred was with Druitt and Dunja and how did he know so much about her culture.
Henry said that there was more to the video, he could to tell from the file's size but this was all he could recover. Helen had a feeling that the rest of that file could explain a lot but accepted that Henry did the best he could and this parcel video and John's letter was all they had. "Nice work, Henry.
