The following account was recorded in the agent's log during your transmission: Water trickles from the rim of a massive, ancient cistern in the center of a vast, sun-baked courtyard, its cracked stone flagstones weathered a deep orange-brown. Umm... the air's heavy with the scent of damp earth, but the atmosphere feels dry, almost parched, with only a faint tang of ozone clinging to the stillness. A small, rusty key somehow remains suspended at the cistern's center, submerged an inch beneath the water's surface, defying its own buoyancy, while a half-dozen scrawny trees with wiry branches stretch up from the courtyard's edges, their leaves quivering slightly in an otherwise motionless breeze.