<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/ESeMfLh.jpg)</div>Alistraza looks at you, a mixture of pity and understanding in her pale sockets. Her mouth twists, rotting teeth unmoving but the side of her face where her lips are intact rises slightly in a sad smile as she nods. She makes a motion of helplessness with one cadaverous hand, before letting it fall, acceptance in the gesture. "I can understand your doubt; it is quite understandable in this kingdom of rot, decay, and undeath. But perhaps I can make<em>you</em>be the one who understands just how monumental what you are doing here is, and its ramifications as well. I will simply pray to Desna that you will make the right choice, and when the time comes, will be strong enough to bear it. Until then, adventurers," she bids you adieu, the soft motion of her other hand revealing rotted fingers ending in tiny bones held together by negative energy.<br/><br/>She takes a few steps and walks with purpose through the portal which closes behind her with a barely audible<em>pop</em>of air released. With its disappearance, two things occur; the first is the Cindrana's sense of strong magic which had been alert and pointing to the book stopped its assault on her mind, and the second is that the bones that had been rattling softly on the ground lie still like puppets whose strings had been cut, their connection to their master severed. You are left looking at the spot of land on which Alistraza had been standing, the only indication of her presence the small bones of sentient creatures out of place compared to the giant bones that litter the land.<br/><br/>You now have a few options; the soft glow you had seen before is still evident and not too far away; apart from that the spire still stands tall in the distance, a monolith defiant against the clouded sky, stark and gleaming jet against the sky. The forms of a few winged creatures can be seen continuing to lazily circle it, though they don't appear to have moved from their orbits. Finally, there is the crushed building you saw before, though it is almost at the other end of the bone field, passed the spire.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">We'll be have two new people join us, pretend that they <em>are</em> who your companions were, and treat them as having traveled with you until here. I don't particularly want to half-ass bringing them in, so I'll just say they've been with you the whole time ;D<br/><br/>To the new people, feel free to post, and introduce your appearances so people know what you look like.<br/><br/>Everyone else, you've got a few choices, make the one you choose wisely ;)</div></div>