Aria shook her head when Rose asked about wards on the doors, and nodded as Rose suggested answering 'Astos', her own best or really only guess. She also like Rose figured not answering at all would be as bad as a 'wrong' answer, for otherwise such things would be quite easily passed, even by negligence or delay. She also nodded about blinking or teleporting away if Rose desired.<br/><br/>"Astos," Aria spoke clearly - it was a name, so hopefully the question of saying it in a particular language like Elven was entirely irrelevant.<br/><br/>The mouth didn't answer again, but the other two statues did in its stead, after a fashion. They animated quite suddenly, in fluid prancing motions which belied their size and presumably great weight. The further one took a first step up the long hall in a clear straight trajectory toward them, while the nearest one gave the two girls a strange smile, and raise a long large 'slender' arm as if rearing it up and back to then slap, smack or sweep across at its guests' heads.<br/><br/>Aria hissed to Rose, "As ever, I'll fight or phase-flee or teleport with you as you prefer!"<br/><br/><br/>Aria initiative 18<br/>Golems initiative 9<br/><br/>(In case it's otherwise misleading, they haven't actually made moves or attacks yet - it's just the visual cues which an unsurprised initiative check presupposes characters have.)<br/>