Turning away from the odd statue for the time being, Nanami makes her way up to the landing.  The paintings were...well-made, if nothing else, and consistent with descriptions of works she had read about in some older texts.  Those same texts had been less than helpful on the subject of who or what might have wanted such paintings though; certain collectors with an eye for more exotic pieces occasionally inquired about them, but to her knowledge nobody was actually willing to openly display such a work, to say nothing of eight of them.<br/><br/>"Words?"  Bella's statement draws her attention, and Nanami soon finds herself circling the room, following the inscription in an attempt to find the beginning, if it had one.  Her inspection is cut short by an exclamation from Felicity, a shout of alarm from Vormitraax, and then an even louder outburst from Felicity again in regards to the statue.  "The statue did what now?" Moving back down to it, Nanami begins a much closer inspection, this time tenatively reaching out with her magic at the same time before abruptly stopping and moving back.  "No. If this is what I think it might be, there's a much better way to do this."<br/><br/>Turning around, she produces what looks like a piece of charcoal and begins to inscribe a complicated circle of symbols on the ground about a foot out from the statue's base.  Although the strokes of her hand are confidant and smooth, it still takes more than a little time to complete.  Designed to prevent otherworldly creatures and magic from escaping the circle, in theory it should allow her to simply step back over it if something did go wrong, leaving whatever the problem was trapped inside.  Brushing her hands off, she turns back to the statue and resumes her study, drawing close to and occasionally touching the statue, although she purposefully stays away from the area that Felicity had previously examined.