Entering the Cave

Tarqinder and Mark awoke to find Kumthalatta and his two guards standing around them, each carrying a spear.

"So you awake bwanas?" Kumthalatta asked.

"My apologies, we must have overslept," Tarqinder replied.

"Hurry, you have both lost valuable time, now prepare to fight, and by tonight you will have got our statue back; or else."