<br/><br/><br/>Aria nodded, "My bracers have two bursts of magic left 'til dawn..after that I'll have little ability left to damage undead and other inorganic monsters like the desert effigy and the bronze serpent...unless we flank them..." Taking off her blindfold to look around the room, she whispered, "No magic auras," while pointing to her eyes and then shaking her head. "More's the pity. Once the invisibility ends we can double back for some well-deserved looting of the priestess's magic things..."<br/><br/>As she spoke she moved towards the library's far doors with Kass, opening one. These led into a long hall with five closed doors to either side, like a black and white shadow of the ones along each side of the theater they'd passed through when going back stage. The doors and walls looked a bit thinner here, and were evidently less soundproof: from behind the third door on the left came carnal shrieking and lusty braying, to the regular rhythm of some piece of furniture bumping a wall.<br/><br/>It took Aria a moment to realize that her permanencies Tongues magic let her<em>understand</em>the shrieking, for better or worse, and she whispered to Kass, "The voice of a drowess - or one using the dark elves' language, at least. As for the translation itself, well...more or less what you'd expect from context."<br/><br/>The hall ended with another, thicker set of double doors like those they'd been using (and which, to the great benefit of their several stealthy battles so far, had proved nigh-soundproof along with the walls around them, in contrast at  least one o the single doors along the hall). These doors were open, and Aria, having pulled up he blindfold, could see partway in by darkvision, "A meeting or dining hall, I think; a long table with many high-backed chairs, each of which has a headrest stylized like the dark-moon-discs we've seen everywhere. Mercifully empty," she crept to the end of the hall to peek into it and confirm; once again pointing to her own eyes then shaking her head. "Two more door pairs in the dining room: one on the right, which I think I saw the other side of from the central sanctuary, and another at the far end leading further around the circumference of this place." 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