Back from her interview with Samona, Nia holds the Sudoku puzzle she had been given her outstretched in her paws, twisting it every which way to get a better look at the numbers. She hears an exclamation beside her and looks up to see a large Eternatus. Nia jumps in surprise.

Oh, Lycellus! Oddly enough, I did not see you there.

She smiles faintly and holds out the piece of paper for Lycellus to see.

Would you like to get a closer look? I can make neither heads nor tails of it. This blotted part makes it hard to see the rest of the numbers clearly and it gives me a positively dreadful feeling.

Nia paused in thought, head tilted, looking at a row of diagonal boxes to the right hand side of the puzzle.

These squares here look to be outlined in red, do you see? Perhaps they form some kind of code? If only we could see the rest of the puzzle...