Altima just huffed and kept quiet about all the irritated emotions flowing around in turgid, roiling ways through her mind and body. She wasn't afraid of a place like this, if the spirits animated the statues and attacked them so what.  She'd just detonate them and turn them into shrapnel and feel better about herself in the end.  When Ari spoke up though about things being worse than she imagined, Altima looked up for a moment and perked a brow, wondering for a moments just why the sky was purple overhead.  That would never be a really good sign of things to come but oh well.  "Come on you lazy idiots, get moving." she said and shoved past the guys to follow Arioch through into the so-called "sacred" area.<br/><br/>Thinking it was just stupid to be worried and even more foolish to be unprepared, fire would begin to seethe out of her hands and coiled around her arms like brilliant serpents, waiting for the chance to destroy something.  "I say bring it on if these spirits think they can use statues to hurt us." She said with a wicked grin.  "I do so enjoy making shrapnel out of inanimate objects." She purred almost lustfully at the thought of blowing something up that wouldn't bleed or scream in agony.  The flames coiled around her arms responded in the same way by seeming to burn hotter and brighter than they started off being.  "About how far is it to where this disruption's source Arioch?" she asked their "guide" politely enough.<br/><br/>Inside, she was just wanting to get this done and over with since it felt like they'd wasted so much time getting here to start with.  Only to have their meeting with the king fall through because the old bastard wanted to be lazy and rely on the hopes that they'd simply get overlooked for a little while longer.  "Arioch, are they always like that though?" she asked, referring to the soldiers and royalty.