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Hengest reports that despite extreme care, the excavation team lost a possibly significant find: a coiled-snake statuette wrought in silver with ancient markings underneath.
When a Blood Guard lifted it, the serpent uncoiled around his arm, and blood poured from his nostrils and ears as he screamed; he dropped dead, the serpent gone without a trace save its shape seared into the flesh.
Hengest urges Xanthe to warn other units never to touch ancient relics, or at least to avoid such figurines.
The note is quest-related.