Her fingers traced over the rough etchings into the wall, as if there wasn't a creature twenty feet away threatening to smash her and and her companions into rust stains on the floor. It was hard to imagine that someone who knowingly agreed to be buried would make such desperate carvings on stone.  she noticed the way the pictographs were all in the same position. So she lightly tapped on the various panels near the skeletal figure, looking for any different in sound quality.<br/><br/>Hearing the thud on the ground Hedenabi turned around to see what happened. She needed to work quickly now. "Amelia, I'm doing what I can. I'm more likely to shoot one of you than the monster," she said, her voice coming out in a jumble with a higher pitch than normal. Her heart pounded in her ears as she turned back to work. If she could not attack the beast then she would find a way out. There had to be one. She had never heard of or been in a throne room without some sort of secret entrance or servant entrance or something.<br/><br/>The sound of the monster hitting the pillar made her jump and turn around. Hedenabi narrowly missed a chunk of ceiling. The sudden crumbling of the throne room sent her into panic mode. What was she missing?<br/><br/>And that was when she saw it. The caving in of the ceiling had caused a rather odd crack that looked too perfect to appear in the wall. This section of the wall was suspiciously devoid of pictographs. Maybe this could be their ticket out of this crumbling room, but at the same time Hedenabi was not looking forward  seeing what remained of whoever scratched the pictographs on the wall.<br/><br/>Ninsunu had the long narrow pry bar that had proven useful so far, but a quick look over her shoulder told her that it was no longer accessible.  With small chunks of ceiling falling around her, there was no time to dally. Hedenabi took an arrow from the quiver across her back and started to pry at the wall. "I think I have a way out of here! We need to get this door or whatever open," she said, her voice breathless and shrill.