“Oh most of them are okay. One is currently having trouble with Krell but Krell’s lazy, so he’s more than likely to survive. Your white knight is on a tear, I do believe that he scared poor little Mikil off. He’s quite aggressive, and he doesn’t seem to care what attention he draws. He’s either going to get himself killed or make mice out of my beautiful pets. Everyone else is faring roughly as well as you little red bird. But you won’t get any further by standing still. Tick tock little bird, tick tock.”
When she stepped over the threshold, there was nothing special that happened, it was just like stepping through any other door. As she strode deeper, things got more interesting as she came to a single, illuminated spot in the vast emptiness. In it was a cage of bones held together by hardened sinews, and inside was a creature that was a mockery of the human form. Black charred skin stretched over a skeletal, and unnaturally long body. It’s legs and arms were twice a size long as any human’s and it would stand at three meters tall when upright, but in the cage it was motionless, hugging its legs to its chest and its head bowed and limp, it appeared dead. There was no face to speak of, just a bony surface where the face would be with a thin layer of black skin stretched across. It’s only recognizable features were claws on its fingertips and a narrow but impossibly long jaw filled with fangs, in front of it lay a key carved from bone.
