Powerless
One by one Hao Xuan wrote down the prime letters in the loose dirt with his finger. He looked towards the team leaders after finishing.
"Can you make them out, these symbols?"
They came closer and surrounded the dirt patch to examine each and every prime letter as closely as they possibly could but after a while, all of them moved back dejectedly.
"I...can't," Arthur was the first one to acknowledge.
Hao Xuan looked towards the others with some hope but their despondent expressions gave away their inner feelings.
"I can see some scribbles but when I try to think about it in my mind they just disappear," Olav said.
"Same for me," Gamil added, "I know there is something there and it feels like I can see its true shape as long as I keep staring directly at it. But the moment I looked away or tried to reconstruct them inside my head everything went black. If you weren't here I would have completely forgotten about them."