Amelia had been surprised that this was the first guardian they'd encountered. She was expecting more monsters. What they got instead were traps. The traps seemed to do fairly well in eliminating the bulk of their party, though. That and the dangerous terrain. As they closed in on the center of the ruins things got progressively more dangerous until, ultimately, the bull-man had appeared and smashed their last remaining companion into paste. Along the way, Amelia had noticed the pictographs along some of the walls, but there had been precious little time to attempt to decipher them. Someone like Hedenabi probably could've read them as they walked, but Amelia would've needed to sit and study them, which would take time they didn't have. Still, she'd heard rumors that a great magical artifact lie in the center of the ruins. Amongst the treasure was an artifact of power of great interest to those with knowledge of the arcane. Amelia's mind swam with the possibilities; a Book of Infinite Spells? A Deck of Illusions? Perhaps a Golem Manual? Perhaps something far greater. The rumors she'd heard were hazy at best, but the further they ventured in the more she knew that something great awaited her at the end; something that would help her cement her place in history.<br/><br/>"Get behind me!  Throw what ever you can at it!" shouted Queluna.<br/><br/>"If you want to stand in front of the rampaging bull-man, be my guest," replied Amelia, stepping back out of the fighter's way. She didn't want to engage in close combat with the monster and she knew the fighter needed room to work anyway. She wanted to cast Detect Magic to search the room for anything hidden, but the monster was the more immediate concern, so she raised her left hand and uttered the incantation for Magic Missile, "Power which drifts across eternity, gather in my hand and become my strength! Magic Missile!" The sorceress' fingers glowed violet with crackling energy, the very air around her hand distorted with raw magic. The brightness gathered into her fingertips then suddenly left her body, long shafts of violet light streaking through open air towards the bull-man.