The following account was recorded in the agent's log during your transmission: Dense, blue-black smoke billows out of a massive, stone statue of a Mesopotamian mušḫuššu in the center of a sprawling, empty plaza, the air thick with the scent of burning tar. Umm, it's weird, 'cause there's this constant, earsplitting shriek echoing through the plaza, but it's not really bothering me... The statue's covered in these weird, interlocking gears that seem to be slowing down time around it, while a half-dozen ravens perch on its shoulders, pecking at what looks like actual rubies set into the stone. A thin, silver thread unwinds from the statue's claws, snaking out into the surrounding desert landscape like a pulse line.