“You alright?”
“Yeah, it's just sore from trudging through all this sand.” She could not wait to get back to Metropolis and the ease of asphalt and pavement. “Ready?” she asked Clark.
“Ready, partner.”
That pretty much wraps up who these intrepid reporters are...ready to go through sand, mud or asphalt to crack a story!
“Zaid, Wahid, and Gamal have been stealing from the tombs for years,” she continued. “When the Project came, they joined to try and stay close to what was happening here. But then the more thorough you were and the deeper the exploration went, the more they realized that they couldn't get away with it forever. So they tried to scare you off and sabotage the Project.”
See? No crazy mummy just three very much flesh and blood men causing the problems.
Excellent story!
