Iki approached the obelisk to examine it. It appeared to be carved out of a single big stone, hinting at its old age considering most modern obelisks are made out of several stones. Each of the obelisk's four sides had a word carved vertically into it in the ancient tongue. Iki translated them out loud.
"Sights. Dawn. Path. Seven. Hmm..." she gazed up at the tall sky pillar with a puzzled expression as the gears turned inside her head. Then she recalled something she once learned about how people in the past would sometimes measure distance. Some lesser known historians have suggested that some people of ancient cultures would measure distance in "sights", meaning that one sight was as far as the eye could see from a given point. The correct order to read the obelisk would most likely be: dawn path seven sights. That would mean that she would have to walk to the farthest point she could see from the obelisk. From that point she would continue in that direction to the next farthest point she could spy from the new location, and continue that process for "seven sights". But the big question was which direction to go from here... "Dawn path"... Would that mean to follow the morning sun at dawn, or to walk in the direction that the shadow of the obelisk would point during sunrise? The two options are complete opposites, but Iki felt like each one made some amount of sense. As she stood there, elaborating in her head, she realised that the "sights" would have to be different today compared to how they were when the obelisk was constructed, so even if she knew which direction to go, she would have no way to determine the distance.
Feeling quite defeated, Iki returned to Belo and Bella. She explained her findings to them as well as her full thoughts about it all.
"Anyway, I think I'd like to continue exploring this area. Please do let me know if anything comes to you, regarding the obelisk or anything else!"