<span style="font-weight: bold">Alyssa and Salla</span>:<br/>Against any common sense, darkness concentrates like a wall at the entrance...<br/><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">Salla:</span></span><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">your fine hearing suddendly catches a muffled noise from inside. It sounds like ... someone's crying inside? A girl's sobbing, apparently. But given how feeble it is, it might well be your imagination.</div></div></div><br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Eilnear</span>:<br/>As you offer the coin, you can almost feel the immobile statue's attention to shift from you to the little disc of rusty metal.<br/>For some time, the stony monster remains perfectly still, and momentarily you could almost think that it actually<span style="font-style: italic">is </span>just an ordinary statue. Then, the monstrous thing slowly begins to move -every movement precise, calibrated, artificial - creaking loudly and spreading clouds of dust. It extends one arm  and gently, yet firmly, takes the coin between two gigantic claws. For a moment, its intimidating figure suggests you ... sadness? Sadness, and resignation. But it doesn't last. The great statue stands solemnly still for some more moments, then, with a single, loud beat of its wings, it raises to the sky, disappearing in the mist.<br/>The passage is free...