... Not so close to Damascus, but that... way yes.

[Balian blinks slowly. It's as close as he gets to shock.] Russia? How did -- [he stares around him some more, then at himself. He was hardly dressed for Russia. In fact, nothing at all he really sees around him makes sense. He still looked like he'd been dragged from battle. Not all the way to Russia. Battle field robbers wouldn't leave as good chain mail as this untouched.]

Houses, what appears to be a forest of some kind... [it's the best he can do, seeing as he can't recognise a single thing, but he has the sense to sweep the video around him.]