Ancalagon watches the minotaur walk into an area so hot it should have burned her lungs to ash just by entering it, and says, sounding amused, "Thinner, but tolerable. So what is it like being older, Raura, worth living toward?"<br/><br/>He cancelled his polymorph spell, so he was back in his orginal body, and said, "How can you survive in this heat? Hell, I think I am sweating, and I don't have sweat glands, or feel heat."<br/><br/>Taking the two halves of the key, he casts about for a door, waiting to hear the women's answers.