A little over half an hour passed, with Kirsta's breath coming in a very light, soft snore, and then shortly before Zerxel planned on waking the girl, she shifted, and suddenly came alert.  Her hand shooting towards the silver knife on the table before her.  Then even as her fingers brushed the handle her eyes spied Zerxel and her whole body relaxed.<strong>"Sorry, I uh... thanks for watching me.  I half expected to wake up bound in spider webs or something.  But I couldn't hold out any longer.  I wanted to move the furniture in the room to barricade the doors, but I was too drained."</strong><br/><br/>She stood up and stretched, loosening muscles that had tightened during her nap in the somewhat rigid chair.<strong>"We should get moving shortly, I'd like to try to get to the paladin before hunger and thirst make me risk something dangerous.  But I said I'd tell you about what I saw already, right?"</strong>She waited for Zerxel's response before explaining,<strong>"These rooms are made up to look somewhat like the interior of a castle, though the layout is chatotic and random.  A bedroom might lead into a kitchen which leads to a privy.  In any regard, I've run into a few gobbers.  Stupid ugly violent creatures who wanted my flesh for their dinner.  However they were dressed as servants in the castle and were going about tasks that might seem to make sense for that room, cooking vile fungus or making beds or the like.  I can be very quiet when I need to be, and was able to dispatch several before they knew I was there.  They seem to have some sort of blindness to the doors, as if they don't even know they exist.  I don't know, it's hard to explain."</strong><br/><br/>She shook her head as if trying to clear away the confusion.<strong>"Anyways, the last fight I was in didn't go very well and I almost died.  But a little luck saved me and afterwards I found a potion on one of the corpses.  I didn't know what it would do, but I was very badly hurt, so I consumed it.  While it healed my wounds instantly, I felt the call of sleep...it was... unnatural." </strong>Kirsta smiled,<strong> "But then again, that's what this place is, isn't it?  A demonic playground for a mad goddess, created by another god?"</strong><br/><br/>She shrugged her shoulders and nodded at a door,<strong>"I suspect that the most direct route will lead to more gobbers, but between the two of us it shouldn't be too difficult I think.  We could try a more circuotous route, but there's no garuntee that such a path would be any safer.  What do you think?"</strong>