The Hero of the Shield

A young woman with brown hair and red eyes looks up from a rain-soaked surface, her expression shifting from calm to distressed as she appears to be falling or sinking. The scene cuts to a young man with black hair and a fur-collared coat, also looking up with a concerned expression as rain falls around him. The sequence includes a brief, distorted transition showing a figure in a dark, snowy environment, and a shot of two hands reaching toward each other through a vertical bar in a dimly lit, stone-walled space.