The monolith was a spire-like structure, that rises to a smooth point, made of a strange, gray stone, polished smooth. The air around the stone glows faintly for about 120 feet surrounding it, and strange, ghostly shapes of unnatural shape and posture flit and writhe through the air. Arrayed around the base of the stone, the nearly half-dozen insectoid creatures dance and cavort, seemingly singing in Infernal, though he would be able to translate the phrases as more amazement... and more sounding like drunkards than anything else. The battle is swift and brutal, especially when Zzamas lunged out of the Ethereal, and tore apart one of the xills, before vanishing again, in the middle of the fight.<br/><br/>Once the infernal creatures were destroyed, the phase spider manifested once more, bowing to the three. "Thank you... for you," she said, depositing a large, ornate trunk at the base of the stone. "I will not... disturb."