The ravenous shadows shrank back from the glow, fleeing from the amber light which encroached boldly upon territory which had been theirs for so long, yet as the sorceress moved deeper into the black abyss, those shadows rushed forward to fill the spot where her light had shone a moment before. Murals clung to the walls on either side, all but faded, and now only depicting shapes and scenes which would have evoked a kind of subtle terror or awe, almost instinctive, had Aisha not been the haughty sorceress that she were. The thin carvings which stretched from the cracked floor to the tall ceilings, and sat between the murals, had survived better, and in those were the fanciful designs of a diseased mind, wherein men and women prostrated before the weird idols of the ancient deities.<br/><br/>Time to examine those idols was not available, however; as figures came into view directly ahead. Another archway was directly in front of Aisha, with stone stairs curling downward into the deeper recesses of the forsaken grounds, and to either side of the archway alcoves were cut into the walls. It was in these alcoves that the figures stood; broad men whose utter stillness and standing positions, leaned as they were against the back walls of the alcoves, almost made them seem as statues in the amber light. This was clearly not the case upon examination though, and while the figures were frozen in place and did not seem to have any reaction to the arrival of the alluring woman, they were clearly men of some sort. They were clothed in light grey robes, the same color as the temple's own masonry, and each bore a long, cruel looking dagger in their left hand. The faces were expressionless masks, communicating no information about their condition whatsoever.<br/><br/>Between the two men, sitting in the archway itself, a slightly raised flagstone gave hint of the trap. It bore a rune which, roughly translated by the sorceress, meant either paralysis or submission; she couldn't be sure which due to the nature of the old tongue's written form. The stone could potentially be jumped over, though doing so would almost certainly create a slight clamor as Aisha landed on the other side. Giving the curve of the stairs there was no way to guess what lay beyond them as well.