<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">SFW Image</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="floatright">(http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/303742/303742,1254873969,1/stock-photo-stone-pier-in-sardinia-italy-38373940.jpg)</div></div></div>The end of the stone pier was about a hundred feet out into the lake.  As Reimu walked towards the far end she realized with some mild surprise what was at the end.  A stack of soft towels, wrapped in a water proof case of some sort was the most normal item there.  Then things got a little stranger.  The stone pier at the very end had a depression cut into it.  The stone was very smooth and well rounded at this depression and it continued down into the water.  At first Reimu wasn't sure why the depression was there, but then she began to peice together the reason as she spied the next item.<br/><br/>A set of shackles, manacles, were laying on the stone of the pier.  One manacle on either side of the depression.  They had a strange locking mechanism that would keep the cuffs securely locked, but could also be easily opened by whoever was inside.  Also odd was that the manacles had very rounded edges, almost as if designed so as to give the wearer as little discomfort as possible.  Reimu began to realize that the idea was that someone would be shackled into the manacles by the wrist, then could lower themselves into the depression in the stone.  Their body would then be submerged in the water up to about their mid abdomen... maybe more or less.  But the catch on the manacles said that it might be a voluntary thing, that the manacles were there to support the .. what... captive?  Visitor?  Reimu wasn't sure.<br/><br/>The most troubling aspect of the manacles was that the chains extended down into holes in the stone pier.  Reimu assumed that could be to accommodate 'guests' of varying height or arm length, but she also couldn't help but be reminded of a torturers device known as 'the rack' where manacled victims would have their limbs pulled off in separate directions by pulling on the chains.<br/><br/>The last, oddest thing on the end of the pier was a wicker basket.  As Reimu inspected the basket, she found a small card in the bottom.  It read;<br/><div align="center"><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><em><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><strong><br/>Clothing or other belongings<br/>Naught but flesh is allowed<br/>to enter the water when one<br/>is a supplicant to the Folk</strong></span></em></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div></div><br/>All in all, it was a very odd situation.