Episode 19 - Alive Underground

**“***Luca and Voncid finally arrive at the dig site. After a complicated retrieval they bring forth the tale of Tina Price. A girl who has been through her fair share of trauma, but has something from the other side looking out for her.***”**
— **Episode notes from Spotify**

## Summary

*The following is a summary written for this wiki. It only hits the major points of the episode and, as such, should not be used as a substitute for listening to the episode as intended by the creators.*
### Main Story

Luca decides to record Voncid sleep talking for later review. He wakes him when they receive a phone call from Phillipa. She decided to do a reading for Luca (since she is forbidden from reading Voncid) since the case felt *wrong* to her. With difficulty, she drew the 10 of Wands, the Tower, and then her kitchen table set on fire. They promise her they will be be careful.

Luca and Voncid finally arrive at the dig site. They are welcomed by hunter Mikhail Rugen, having returned from the Australian outback. Voncid introduces Mikhail to Luca. Voncid apologises that they are late, since they stopped for an emergency Valentine's day exorcism. They all head off to join Nash Faraday and Nijal Delang. Rugen says that Olivia Biers-Weather will be joining them later, which surprises Voncid since she 'hasn't left the Ardent in years'. Voncid introduces Luca to Nijal, who he has seen around the Ardent.

There is some discussion as to how they are going to extract the body in one piece, until Luca suggests they use geomancy to bring up the rock around the body, like a coffin, and then break it open. With the powerful assistance of Venerim Olivia Biers-Weather, who blows out the recorder, the body was successfully extracted.

Voncid starts looking at the body, who is wearing modern attire. The victim is a young woman named Tina Price, missing for three years. Even with being sealed in stone, the body is remarkably preserved. Voncid prepares to wake her, and Nijal enters to witness it since Cid is the only person left who can do it, and Nash leaves to avoid seeing it. Nash offers to help, but Voncid turns him down as it shouldn't be too hard. Tina wakes and tells Voncid about the first time she was buried, was in a car accident with her father. Looking out from the wrecked car, she could hear music, and see a field and a tree, with beings made of the elements, and could hear the tree calling for help for her. The beings approached her but in the real world the firemen got to Tina first. She spent a year in and out of the hospital, and had extreme claustrophobia.
Tina was able to go to the Painted Cathedral Caverns with her friends, after years of therapy. In the cave she gets seperated from the group after being mesmerised by one band of colour and tells Voncid her experience of being slowly squeezed to death by something akin to a great worm, something from before the walls went up. The jewel toned beings from the field with the tree came back for her, to save her from experiencing the horrible crushing death.

Voncid realises that the entity is drawn to people with connections to 'the otherside'. This entity, now awakened by both Olivia and Voncid's powers, bursts out from the ground.

### Continuity

* The excavation is taking place in Colorado, at the spot where five observers stopped to stare at something in the ground in Episode 16 - Evening at The Ardent.

## Characters

* Voncid
* Luca
* Phillipa James
* Mikhail Rugen
* Nijal Delang
* Nash Faraday
* Olivia Biers-Weather
* Tina Price, Reclaimed by Voncid
* Carly, Tina's friend
* Brett, Tina's friend

## Notes

* 'Special thanks to Victoria Tribble, find her work at linktr.ee/crimetraveling'